Ten years ago, the legendary gospel singer Andraé Crouch died after a nearly 50-year career. He was called the “leading pioneer of contemporary gospel music” and the “foremost gospel singer of his ...

I think most of the major Black denominations, in terms of its membership, is divided,' said Bishop Reginald Jackson, leader ...

The film was made available to watch in the United States beginning April 14 on wonder.watch and streamed worldwide starting ...

When you’re lost in the rain in Juarez and it’s Eastertime too. And your gravity fails and negativity don’t pull you through.

"I sang in my high school choir, college choir and the gospel choir ... and the songs, too. We would do our swinging freedom songs, but we'd also do old 19th-century lined hymns.

Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock is a very different event from Monterey; almost a black light version of it. Like a lot of things – including Altamont – it hadn’t started out that way.In fact, his ...

Special to The OBSERVER “Sinners” marks Ryan Coogler's first stand-alone feature since Fruitvale Station. The Academy ...

Inextricably linked with the gospel tradition, the best country songs for Easter are almost always sublime songs of praise.

A new documentary details a project to revamp an 1,800-year-old hymn for a modern audience. The Oxyrhynchus Hymn is the oldest surviving Christian hymn with musical notation — and was rewritten by ...

Christian music writers Ben Fielding and Chris Tomlin were approached by a historian with a Christian artifact that needed to see new life. The result is a modern-day worship song and documentary.

Our staff's favorite songs from a year that confirmed that hip-hop and R&B were now at top 40's center, but also had plenty ...