All over the world this Advent and Christmas season, worshippers will hear and sing along to some version of “Adeste Fideles.” It is traditionally the final anthem during Midnight Mass at St. Peter’s ...

There are many categories of hymns — praise, revival, patriotic, majesty and poetry, unity and fellowship, the Earth, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter, to name a few. Having grown up in a house ...

Hymns are “important in the history of ideas, the formation of culture, and the inner life of individual readers,” J. R. Watson reminds us in this time when the disciplines of hymn writing and singing ...