Evangelical churches sing hymns written between 1870 and 1920 so often that many children learn them by rote before they are able to read religious texts. A che

Magee brings hymns out of their sometimes formal, Sunday-best, stuffy setting and into Christians' Monday-through-Friday lives. At the same time, she presents a

Women have made an amazing, creative, and prolific contribution to hymnody through the centuries of Christian worship. Excluded from liturgical commissions and

Presents hymns and spirituals which accompany the Lutheran worship service.

Hymns and the music the church sings are tangible means of expressing worship. And while worship is one of, if not the, central functions of the church along wi