Music of the church, beginning with hymns and melodies stretched all the way to, and before, the reformation era in the 1500s with composer and theologian Martin Luther, has shaped and the songwriting ...

Devotional hymns of Shaiva saints Appar, Sambandhar and Sundarar of the medieval age, are the Thevarams sung in a combined stream of song and music. These are acknowledged as one of the more ...

(RNS) The new verses that the Rev. Carolyn Winfrey Gillette pens are tools for moving people beyond the paralysis they may feel when they hear the latest bad news. (RNS) Gun violence has reached a ...

Carolyn Winfrey Gillette creates “sung prayers” for a problem that seems difficult to solve while also spurring people to end gun violence. Her hymn “335,609 (I Cried to God),” sung to the tune of “Be ...

Members of the Fil-Am Choir from St. Gregory the Great Parish in Virginia Beach, Va., sing the offertory hymn during a Jan. 18, 2020, Mass. The U.S. bishops' doctrine committee, in a forthcoming ...