A friend passed on to me a must-listen Fresh Air interview with Jason Hamacher, an American punk drummer who went to Syria just before the war to record ancient Sufi and Christian liturgical music.

Russian chants (harmonized), and other sacred vocal music; includes hymns for the Feast of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God (Hodegetria), for the Dormition of the most holy Birth-Giver of God, ...

From outside the doors of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral, the baritone voice of John Michael Boyer can be heard. Inside the church, Boyer is standing just to the right of the church’s icon ...

A moment as mysterious as the sacred idea it celebrates – the crucified Christ’s decent into Hades before his resurrection – arrived Saturday morning at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in a ...

“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and charm and joy to life and to everything.” —Plato With music’s transcendent power, language does ...

Syrian Culture Minister Mohammed Saleh was criticized this week after a video surfaced showing him at a historic Orthodox church with Islamic chanter Al-Mu’tasim Billah Al-Assali, who performed an ...

An Orthodox Jewish man was subjected to chants of “I’ve got a foreskin, haven’t you f—ing Jew” while on an airplane. The video of the chant was posted to social media on November 4; according to The ...

Isaac Cates, one of the composers of the “Canon,” leads the gospel choir Ordained and is steeped in the gospel tradition. Steven Green The Eastern Orthodox Church and the Black American church seem ...