Ever since I can remember, I’ve been an early riser. These days, more often than not, I’m up at least an hour before sunrise. No matter the time of year, at that time of day, everything feels all ...

After winning a Songwriter of the Year Dove Award in 2008, Christian music veteran Cindy Morgan released Beautiful Bird, her first record independently of long-time label home, Word, to five-star ...

For those of us plugged into 24/7 news and social media, life is a slog, attacked by the proverbial slings and arrows. We’ve experienced more than our share, it’s true. No one knows this better than I ...

Starting your day with worship music can set a peaceful, faith-filled tone that carries through every moment. From timeless hymns to uplifting contemporary praise, these songs help you focus on ...

Hymns are “important in the history of ideas, the formation of culture, and the inner life of individual readers,” J. R. Watson reminds us in this time when the disciplines of hymn writing and singing ...

Not long ago a radio speaker declared that a good Bible hour is better than a dozen sermons. One may be justified in saying also that a good evangelical hymn is better than much of the preaching one ...

Five hundred years after Martin Luther and a colleague published their first hymnal, Princeton Theological Seminary Professor Emeritus Paul Rorem has written a book that provides what his publisher ...

In a class on ministry, Will Willimon often referred to “the great theologian of our age”—meaning Bob Dylan, whose poetic expression of antiwar convictions helped Willimon articulate a Christian ...

Songwriters living in ancient Egypt would never have expected the words and melodies they sang would feature on Australian music charts 1,800 years later. But one Australian academic's obsession with ...