In “Simple Gifts: Great Hymns: One Man’s Search for Grace,” Bill Henderson tries to pack a memoir, a work of amateur musicology, a spiritual autobiography and a Luddite rant into less than 200 pages.

Five hundred years after Martin Luther and a colleague published their first hymnal, Princeton Theological Seminary Professor Emeritus Paul Rorem has written a book that provides what his publisher ...

The oldest religious text in the world date back thousands of years, though many religions were initially passed on through spoken word. These religious texts are some of the oldest in human history.

Rev. Carolyn Gillette, of Pike Creek, has had her second book of hymns, “Songs of Grace,” published by Upper Room's Discipleship Resources earlier this summer. Gillette, co-pastor of Limestone ...

LITTLE ROCK — Ouachita Baptist University graduate C. Edward Spann has written a book about the Sunday morning musical tastes of U.S. presidents. Presidential Praise reveals the spiritual soundtracks ...

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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Officials of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently announced the upcoming release of "Hymns--for Home and Church." The consolidated collection of 450 to 500 ...

Hymn books could soon be a thing of the past as churches switch to high-tech services with the words on giant screens, assisted by an iTunes app. The fashion for ‘hands-free worship’ has led to a ...

Though the Battle Hymn of the Republic is more than 150 years old, it is still embraced by Americans of all political persuasions. According to Ben Soskis, co-author of a new book about the song, that ...