Taking nine biblical passages about the Christmas story and interspersing them with rousing carols and hymns, his intention was (at least in part) to get his congregation out of the pub.

Hymnody (the singing or composition of hymns) has evolved and changed over the centuries and been affected by new thinking and developing religious beliefs: throughout the history of the church ...

Poland really loves its Christmas carols. And there are thousands of them. One even nearly became the national anthem. Here’s a quick look at the history of the genre and ... in the Middle Ages as ...

Christmas 1945 was the first after WW 2 and my parents were engaged to be married in the following April. This Hymn Book was my mothers gift to my father that Christmas and is suitably inscribed ...

Isaac Watts’s 1719 paraphrase of Psalm 98 became a Christmas classic when it was ... and it is now one of the most popular Christmas hymns in North America. Mason routinely gave credit to ...

“A complete German service, his Deutsche Messe, was celebrated October 29, 1525 and again on Christmas Day ... ground is sinking sand.” The History of Hymns referred to Mote as part ...