It's almost more truth than I can bear to express," writes Henderson about a line from "Amazing Grace" in his brief meditation on the importance of hymns in American Christian life. Henderson, the ...

Hymns, or musical expression of worship in song, are older than the Psalms in the Old Testament. Who knows? Adam may have even sung. Like most forms of expression, hymns have hit the digital age with ...

Mourners sing 'We Shall Overcome' outside the historic Emanuel AME Church(Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images) How did a simple hymn rise to become a world-wide civil rights anthem, described by the US ...

One of the unfortunate aspects of church life in the 21st century is the demise of the hymn. My daughter’s family has been looking for a church in Hamilton and she reports that all the evangelical ...