They knew that “Amazing Grace” would make the cut, and that “How Great Thou Art” was a sure thing. The committee that chose the 250 hymns for Hymns for Worship, considered these songs “classical hymns ...

Walk into most black churches Sunday morning and you're more likely to hear the choir sing from the gospel top 40 list than sing old-time "Negro spirituals" or hymns from traditional hymnbooks.

(RNS) — A new documentary details a project to revamp an 1,800-year-old hymn for a modern audience. ... He hopes to use this new version of the first hymn in worship.

But hymns of praise and gratitude have been central to Jewish and Christian worship for millennia. In fact, they go back to one of the best-known scenes in the Hebrew Bible. Fleeing Pharaoh ...

(RNS) — A new documentary details a project to revamp an 1,800-year-old hymn for a modern audience. ... He hopes to use this new version of the first hymn in worship.

“The First Hymn,” like the preceding “ancient-future” worship trend of the 2000s, offers connection to early believers by adapting or reviving an artifact of the faith for modern ...

Worship leaders Keith and Kristyn Getty recently updated a famous missions hymn—“Facing a Task Unfinished”—in order to inspire evangelism.Meanwhile, the Hymn Society released 55 old ...