Brian McLaren, the liberal “emergent” evangelical activist, re-emerged last week to announce that he is rewriting the hymn “Onward, Christian Soldiers.” The hymn is too warlike, he writes, as is much ...

Thirty years ago, there was a ruckus in the United Methodist Church over its hymnody. The hymnal revision committee had recommended the removal of two well-known gospel songs with militaristic ...

On June 5, 1865, Anglican priest and polymath Sabine Baring-Gould wrote the processional hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers." The hymn was originally written for children walking to Horbury St. Peter's ...

(RNS) Two weeks ago, I wrote how the University of Florida’s star quarterback, Tim Tebow, had abused his celebrity fame in advertising a particular set of religious beliefs — however sincere — by ...

To contact Lindsay Terry, email [email protected]. President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with Sir Winston Churchill on Aug. 14, 1941, on the ship, Prince of Wales. The occasion was the signing of ...

The publishing house of my denomination, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), will soon issue a promising new hymnal. Naturally the hymns had to pass theological muster, but the range of styles and ...