Why Hymns?

Why do an album of hymns anyway? The word comes from the Greek "hymnos," a sacred song or poem.  Since most everything having to do with the Christian church was translated through the Greeks, that's why we call our church songs "hymns" now (our Jewish brothers and sisters call them "piyutim" and our Muslim family calls them "nasheeds"). To be honest, I'm not the biggest fan of the traditional Christian hymnal.  [...]