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 ...

The early 19th-century hymn, which will feature at King Charles’ coronation at Westminster Abbey, remains one of the most popular of all time in English-speaking denominations. Here are its lyrics.

Joachim Neander was a German hymn writer and teacher in the late 1600s. He wrote many hymns that focused on praising God for His power, care, and presence in daily life. His work has been sung in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even in an age as benighted as ours, its spiritual life flattened by prim multiculturalism, yah-boo-sucks atheism and mindless materialism, the great hymns and carols of the Protestant tradition ...

Hymns mean so much to so many people and if you have a favourite BBC Songs of Praise would like to know. Choose your all-time number one from the 100 hymns and worship songs that have been most ...

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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 ...

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 ...