New Year’s Day, 12:30 p.m. A text from my sister in Culver City, Calif., asked if we were excited about the Rose Bowl. I did a double take. All my focus on New Year’s Eve events and New Year’s Day ...

A writer reflects on watching the Rose Bowl matchup of Indiana University and Alabama. Alabama's nickname, "Crimson Tide," reminded the author of a hymn sung in Alabama churches. This inspired a ...

Below is a religion column by Matt Friedeman: The weeks leading up to Christmas, known in the Church as Advent, has traditionally been a time of fasting and repentance, an opportunity to take ...

Isaac Watts is a great hymn writer in the Christian faith, but did you know that his beloved hymn, “Joy to the World,” was not originally a Christmas hymn? In its first version, it had no connection ...

As many of you know, I have great respect for the theology expressed in traditional Christian hymns. Recently while reading some devotional material, Harry Emerson Fosdick’s great hymn from 1930 ...

East Texas Baptist University held its 15th annual Great East Texas Hymn Sing this past week at Baker Chapel in the Rogers Spiritual Life Center in Marshall. Hundreds of participants, including ...

East Texas Baptist University held its 15th annual Great East Texas Hymn Sing this past week at Baker Chapel in the Rogers Spiritual Life Center in Marshall. Hundreds of participants, including ...

Hymnody is a powerful ecumenical tool. No matter where I worship, be it in a Baptist Lutheran, Catholic or Presbyterian Church, the bulk of hymns in that church’s Hymnal mirror those found in my ...

Every so often at church, we take a break from whatever section of the Bible we are studying and learn about the history of the hymns we sing. Occasionally breaking up the monotony of a weekly routine ...

In the course of a collaboration with the University of Baghdad, LMU's Enrique Jiménez has rediscovered a text that had been lost for a thousand years. A paper on this discovery is published in the ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The new Latter-day Saint hymnbook will take about nine years from being announced with a request for submissions to becoming a full printed hymnbook in church meetinghouses. The ...