Elisha A. Hoffman was an American Presbyterian minister and a famous hymn writer, born in 1839 in Pennsylvania. He grew up in a musical family, singing hymns at home and in church, which inspired his ...

Jefferson Hascall was a lyricist known for writing hymns in the 1800s. He often worked with gospel music and helped shape religious songs that were easy to sing and full of meaning. His lyrics focused ...

‘How Great Thou Art’ is a Christian hymn which started life as a poem set to a Swedish melody. The poem, ‘O Store Gud’ (O Great God), was written by the Swedish poet and lay minister, Carl Boberg, in ...

Gospel music and faith have long been a part of Black culture in the U.S. From hymns that would be sung on slavery fields to anthems of the civil rights movement, gospel has been there. Adeerya ...

Fans of a beloved contemporary Christian hymn won’t find any satisfaction in a new church hymnal. The committee putting together a new hymnal for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) dropped the popular ...

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 ...

Looking back at the painful and difficult history of being Black in America, religion has always been an important cultural and spiritual backbone — constantly sustaining and replenishing the ...