Thousands will be moved in the coming week before Easter by the hymn My song is love unknown. What makes the hymn so touching? And why did it lie disregarded, as a sleeper for two and half centuries.

That’s exactly what one church congregation sang as they were treated to a special Super Bowl Sunday hymn ahead of the Eagles’ showdown against the two-time defending Kansas City Chiefs.

The words of this hymn were written around 1630 and later translated into English by the poet Robert Bridges. In 1930, the Composer Herbert Howells was sent the words by a friend and apparently ...

Henry Francis Lyte, Vicar of Brixham in Devon, had the idea for this hymn when he was in Wexford visiting a dying friend. He later revisited it when he himself was dying from TB and it was first ...

With no musical accompaniment whatsoever, Susan Boyle's voice approaches heaven-like reverence on her cover of the hymn ...

It was written by James Weldon Johnson, who considered the piece a hymn. James Weldon Johnson's "Lift Every Voice and Sing," colloquially known as the Black national anthem, was originally written ...