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.

As we look at another New Year’s Day, it’s a good time to reflect on a song that unites rather than divides us: the Rev. John Newton’s hymn “Amazing Grace.” The hymn first appeared in Ne ...

Shortly after the turn of the 20th century, Northwestern students sang the original version of the University Hymn in the language of ancient Rome. In 1953, the then Director-of-Bands, John Paynter ...