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 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.

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: This weekend of Easter Sunday (April 12) for Western Christians we have a profile coming up of an inspiring Christian musician. We also have a “Belief and Practice” segment on ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Just as every cell in a human body contains a complete set of its DNA, so every page of the Talmud – the immense law code that defines traditional Jewish life and belief – encodes the whole history of ...