I have produced a recognizable body of scholarship on ancient Jewish and Christian prayers and hymns. During the formative period of biblical scholarship in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth ...

Often people who don’t go to church think that those who do go spend their time there singing hymns. Yet there is no explicit ...

Hymn writing should be a spiritual practice for everyday saints, not just for worship professionals. Anyone who has grown up in or around the church is likely familiar with “hymn stories”—the stories ...

We all have our favorite prayers, novenas, devotions and aspirations. One of mine is a prayer that seems to have fallen out of popular use lately: the ancient “Te Deum”, commonly attributed to St.

The upright piano was old and out of tune, but James Linzey couldn’t resist the urge to stop and touch the keys. Sitting in the former Dalton gang museum building in Coffeyville, Kansas, Linzey ...

Re: "Face of Remembrance Day is changing," Nov. 16. I was pleased to read in Shannon Corregan's column about what I assume is a budding tradition on Facebook for young people to replace their profile ...