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 ...

Our hymnals open to Page 555, the congregation begins to sing “Forward Through the Ages,” and suddenly I am transported back to the church of my youth. It is the old familiar melody except in this ...

The recollection of one of them in particular was made the more vivid by a burst of martial music which just then broke the stillness of the night. Evidently the missionary had finished his address.

In Season 2 of Extremely American: Onward Christian Soldiers host Heath Druzin and James Dawson take an inside look at Christian nationalism. The movement aims to end American democracy as we know it ...