Perhaps more than any other genre of music, country music has a devotion to God built right into its foundation. Songs attempt to commune with God. They reference God. They apologize, worship, wonder, ...

With corporate consolidation in worship music, more entities are invested in the songs sung on Sunday mornings. How will their financial incentives shape the church? When worship leader Jonathan ...

In Chapter 3 of the Book of Daniel we find a rather striking prayer in the form of a litany that is truly a canticle of creation. We read different parts of this prayer on several occasions during ...

(RNS) — A new study found that the most popular worship songs come from a handful of megachurches with a knack for writing pop songs about what God will do for you. (RNS) — On Easter Sunday, the ...

(RNS) — ‘How Great Is Our God’ has long been one of the most popular worship songs in Christian churches. Since 2020, it’s also become a theme song for Christian nationalist protesters. “Our hearts ...

But the Easter special was a reminder of how the church influences mainstream music. At the time, American Idol was in its eighth season, and it was the singular singing competition in the burgeoning ...