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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is commonly assumed that, as part of any agreed united Ireland, Amhrán na bhFiann will have to make way for a new anthem, respectful of both the island’s traditions. But if reader David O’Shea is ...

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 ...