1. What is your favorite hymn from “The Golden Age of Hymns”? (See the Contents for some still-popular candidates.) What makes this hymn important to you? 2. In what ways is today’s outpouring of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Brian Fallon is celebrating the arrival of ...

The U.S. bishops voted to approve close to 300 new hymn texts for the Liturgy of the Hours. The Nov. 12 vote was 205-5 with two abstentions. The proposal needed two-thirds of the Latin-rite bishops to ...

Songs that kindled memories of growing up in churches during the 1940s and 1950s are fading into silence. And the four-part harmony that many of them required could go with them into history, ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KIFI) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced 15 new hymns to it's collection of "Hymns - For Home and Church." The church said the songs will be available on it's ...

In the vast expanse of ancient literature, few works shine with the sheer brilliance and mystery of the Rigveda. A revered text in Hindu philosophy and one of the oldest surviving scriptures in human ...

The mantras of the Rig Veda reveal how the first Hindus engaged with the unknown So the Rig Veda is a collection of over a thousand finely crafted hymns (mantras) distributed over 10 chapters known as ...

Although archaeologists have excavated 500,000 cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamian sites over the last two centuries, about half of these texts now in museums around the world haven’t been thoroughly ...