M0NTEVALLO, Alabama -- A brass band in front of the First Baptist Church of Montevallo during the city's Art Walk two weeks ago blasted out a medley of classic Christian hymns played on trumpets, ...

Randall Black has fond memories of growing up singing in a small church. He recalls the hymns offered up at Carbondale’s Grace United Methodist Church, and he remembers the way those songs were sung. ...

Edward Mote was a 19th-century English pastor and hymn writer best known for penning the lyrics to My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less. Born in 1797, he overcame a godless upbringing and became a Baptist ...

For nearly a century, Christians of all stripes have been raising “The Old Rugged Cross” as a musical standard. Many know the composer was a man named George Bennard. Few, however, realize that his ...

The hymn “Let the Lower Lights Be Burning,” written by Philip Paul Bliss in 1871, evocatively describes a group of despairing sailors trying to find their way through a perilous sea. “Brightly beams ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Bill Leon, a trumpet player who organized the Christian jazz band Power & Glory, loves the sound of heavenly horns. Power & Glory, a brass band that plays medleys of classic ...

Fanny Crosby was an American hymn writer, poet, and composer who became blind when she was just six weeks old. Despite her blindness, she wrote over 8,000 hymns and gospel songs, including famous ...

In a class on ministry, Will Willimon often referred to “the great theologian of our age”—meaning Bob Dylan, whose poetic expression of antiwar convictions helped Willimon articulate a Christian ...

Remember when Ernest and Morgan Wallen sang an old Christian hymn called “‘Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus”? Well, if you forgot, Ernest took a moment to remind all of us — and maybe tease something ...