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Carolyn Winfrey Gillette, a fifty-four-year-old pastor from Wilmington, Delaware, is a prolific and celebrated composer of hymns. She’s written around two hundred and fifty of them, and they’ve been ...

WASHINGTON — The doctrine committee of the US bishops’ conference (USCCB) earlier this year produced a guide to evaluating the lyrics of hymns on the basis of their doctrinal content, noting that ...

Songwriters living in ancient Egypt would never have expected the words and melodies they sung would feature on Australian ...

Read the main article on why hymnals matter. Controversy sells. It sells newspapers, journals and movies. It may even sell conference registrations, to judge from the frequency with which I’m asked to ...

In addition to ancient verses, a first-century boat ‘brings the Gospel scenes to life’ at the Museum of the Bible.

Here’s one thing Presidents Bush and Obama have in common: both had the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” featured at key points in their presidencies. But how did a song with such clear sectional roots ...