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 ...

FROM the soil of the monastic life, which might seem, for many reasons, to have been unfavorable to such a development, there sprang and bloomed some of the rarest flowers of Christian poetry. There ...

As far back as the 18 th century, German monks brewed and drank beer during the solemn religious observance of Lent, which is the six weeks that leads up to Easter Sunday. Arthur Guinness, who was the ...

A previously unknown hymn of praise dating to around 1000 BCE was discovered by LMU Professor Enrique Jiménez, who used AI to identify 30 related manuscripts. During a joint project with the Baghdad, ...

Folks all over the area have sure felt the cold and snowy blast of winter the last few weeks. Neighbors hopes you who are reading this didn‘t suffer any terrible hardships, however. And maybe — just ...

Traditional hymns may be fading as churches look to contemporary music to attract younger crowds, but Dave Talbott is keeping the old music alive. Retired in September after 41 years as director of ...

More than a thousand years after it was last heard, a long-lost hymn to the ancient city of Babylon has been brought back to life, thanks to AI. This remarkable rediscovery gives us new insights into ...

It's one of the most distinctive sounds in country and bluegrass music. You can hear it in the singing of Patty Loveless, Keith Whitley and Ricky Skaggs. The way these Appalachian-born singers bend ...

The 12-string guitarist Sarah Louise and fiddler Sally Anne Morgan (Black Twig Pickers, Pelt) understand that folk music is a music that moves forward, as old hymns and songs passed down are just as ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - At the Last Chance Tavern and Grill last Tuesday evening, the joint got lively when the crowd started singing along to the old hymn, "Great is Thy Faithfulness." "Morning by morning ...