I randomly came across an article about Contemporary Christian Music artist Chris Tomlin’s interest in an 1,800 year old hymn, the subject of a documentary entitled The First Hymn. Back in 1918, ...

Historian teams up with Chris Tomlin and Hillsong’s Ben Fielding to adapt rare music dating back to the third century. Historian John Dickson knows that “early” Christian music usually refers to ...

Songwriters living in ancient Egypt would never have expected the words and melodies they sang would feature on Australian music charts 1,800 years later. But one Australian academic's obsession with ...

We all have our favorite prayers, novenas, devotions and aspirations. One of mine is a prayer that seems to have fallen out of popular use lately: the ancient “Te Deum”, commonly attributed to St.

A hymn praising the city of Babylon and its people, silent for more than a thousand years, has been reconstructed from broken cuneiform tablets excavated from the ancient Sippar Library. The recovery ...