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 ...

If newcomers walk into a Protestant church on Sunday and hear an organ playing, and see hymnals, the odds are good that between 50 and 250 people will be in the pews. If a church's attendance is ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Other than the occasional "Amazing Grace," the hymn is dead at many Protestant churches these days. As church music evolved to fit the times, the hymn book has been tucked ...

Hymnody and sacred music, long the domain of hymnologists and musicologists, have become hot topics in scholarship about American religion, and the “worship wars” of the 1980s and ’90s have sparked a ...

p>In her day, especially on Sunday mornings, Fanny Crosby was one of the most famous women in the United States. Crosby (1820-1915) wrote more than 8,000 Protestant hymns, many of which became ...