Fanny J. Crosby was a blind hymn writer who inspired generations through her deep faith and powerful lyrics. Despite losing her sight shortly after birth, she wrote over 8,000 hymns that touched ...
In Chapter 3 of the Book of Daniel we find a rather striking prayer in the form of a litany that is truly a canticle of creation. We read different parts of this prayer on several occasions during ...
Hymns mean so much to so many people and if you have a favourite BBC Songs of Praise would like to know. Choose your all-time number one from the 100 hymns and worship songs that have been most ...
The early 19th-century hymn, which will feature at King Charles’ coronation at Westminster Abbey, remains one of the most popular of all time in English-speaking denominations. Here are its lyrics.
Thanksgiving doesn’t ring in the ear for months on end, unlike another holiday that lies just ahead. Yet readers may remember a couple of hymns that roll around each November in church, around the ...
Prayer and song is one way to get into the spirit of East Sunday -- ESPECIALLY song, many would say. Our Cover Story is from is from Tracy Smith: If angels somehow descended on Midtown Manhattan, it ...
Why it's a good choice: One of the most sung hymns at funerals, this is really a prayer to God to stay with him in death as He did with us in life. Henry Francis Lyte, Vicar of Brixham in Devon, had ...