King David playing the lyre in a scene from a 15th-century manuscript of the Book of Psalms. Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Hulton Archive via Getty Images The earliest musical ...

Hymn writer Martin Franzmann was born Jan. 29: 1907: in Lake City: Minn. His friend Robin Leaver, author of “Come to the Feast,” a book about Franzmann, writes that the boy “grew up within the ...

I woke up one morning with a line from a hymn in my mind: “Keep us from our own undoing.” I looked it up in the Christian Science Hymnal. It’s from hymn 115 by John M. Neale (adapted from his original ...

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Thanksgiving doesn’t ring in the ear for months on end, unlike another holiday that lies just ahead. Yet readers may remember a couple of hymns that roll around each November in church, around the ...