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 ...

Fanny J. Crosby was a blind hymn writer who inspired generations through her deep faith and powerful lyrics. Despite losing her sight shortly after birth, she wrote over 8,000 hymns that touched ...

In Chapter 3 of the Book of Daniel we find a rather striking prayer in the form of a litany that is truly a canticle of creation. We read different parts of this prayer on several occasions during ...

Legendary composer Irving Berlin wrote his iconic God Bless America for a musical revue while in the Army during World War I, but he shelved it. One hundred years later, it turns out his patriotic ...

SONGS Of Praise is a popular religious TV show that presents Christian hymns from various churches and cathedrals around the UK each week. Singing sensation Katherine Jenkins recently joined the ...

LONDON--Churches across the world are able to sing the Lord's praises online after the launch of the first major digital hymn book on Thursday. Mission Praise--which has sold more than 2 million ...

Jerusalem has been voted the UK's favourite hymn in a BBC Songs Of Praise special. The popular hymn, which is a poem by William Blake set to music written by Sir Hubert Parry in 1916, was ranked above ...

Voted for by tens of thousands of members of the public, Jerusalem has been revealed as the UK’s favourite hymn in a special episode of Songs Of Praise. Host Aled Jones, counted down the country’s ten ...

The results of the first ever online vote on Songs Of Praise to discover the nation’s most popular hymns will be announced soon. Tens of thousands of viewers chose their favourite hymn from a list of ...

Why it's a good choice: This wonderful text is ideally suited for a baptism, with its focus on our hope on God and all the wonders that he offers us. The words of this hymn were written around 1630 ...

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