As people of Jewish faith observe Passover this week on Zoom, for Christians it is Holy Week, ending with Easter Sunday. Music is at the core of many religious rituals. Because of the COVID-19 ...

From the jubilation of Palm Sunday to the despair of Maundy Thursday to the grief of Good Friday to the joy of Easter Sunday, music helps worshippers navigate the emotional journey of Holy Week.

The services of Passion Week are a musical feast for the ears and the soul. Russian liturgical tradition is rich in special melodies for certain hymns of this most important week of the liturgical ...

Choral music uses human voices to tell human stories. From the sacred to the secular, the sorrowful to the celebratory, there is something profoundly moving about voices raised together in song. Much ...

In 1789, William Blake (1757–1827) published his “Songs of Innocence,” and five years later, in 1794, he produced his “Songs of Experience” — binding them both together as “Songs of Innocence and of ...

The following interview with the Rev. Fleming Rutledge, preacher and author of THE UNDOING OF DEATH (Eerdmans), a collection of sermons for Holy Week and Easter, was conducted by RELIGION & ETHICS ...

The White House has announced plans for the Christian Holy Week leading up to Easter, which will include a Wednesday dinner and a Thursday religious service with Christians from a variety of ...

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