Members of Gloucester Cathedral Choir have scaled the building's tower to mark Ascension Day. It is an annual tradition to ...

As if there wasn’t already enough to love about Lord Lisvane, with his quirky eyebrows and his plummy tones, now we discover ...

Rejoice, birth-giver of the aromatic balm of the King of all. Rejoice, O Bride unwedded, the world's salvation." The Akathist Hymn is a profound, devotional poem, which sings the praises of the Holy ...

The old favourite, beloved of school assemblies, weddings and church services, should have been left in the Victorian era, ...

But you might think it’s impossible for the lyrics in a harvest festival hymn to become out of date. “We plough the fields ...

This is the Hymn to Ninkasi, the Sumerian goddess of beer. Ancient Sumeria was a civilization which emerged between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers some time after 7000 B.C. By 5000 B.C. they had ...

The Hymn of Kassiane takes center stage on Holy Tuesday in the Orthodox church, as Greeks move closer to the end of Lent ...

I don’t have a copy of my parish hymnal at home, but I know that, through the years, we often have sung the hymn, “We Walk By Faith.” Some of the lyrics are very appropriate to recent Sunday ...

Chase Thompson has pastored First Baptist Church for nine years, but this past Sunday was a noteworthy “first” for him — and ...

Thursday, May 9 — Come to Park View Mennonite Church’s sanctuary at 7 p.m. for a participatory hymn sing under the direction ...

The editors of a tiny 165-year-old pamphlet, believed to be the world’s only surviving copy of a Chartist hymn book, have been identified. Dr Mike Sanders, from The University of Manchester, says the ...

Folk singer revives music believed to have been rejected by hymn book committees, after she found recordings in archive A trove of Welsh hymns believed to have been “cancelled” by all-male ...