Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Benson Boone, Teddy Swims and Alex Warren have all dabbled in secular praise music. (Photo Illustration: Yahoo News, photo: Erika ...

From an evolutionary standpoint, we’re still not sure whether our brains evolved specifically to process music, or music happened to make use of neural pathways that had developed for other reasons.

“They say, ‘The holy water's watered down, and this town's lost its faith,’” a man sings soulfully. This is not a religious condemnation of the terrible things that have happened on Earth. It’s a tune ...