Hymnody and sacred music, long the domain of hymnologists and musicologists, have become hot topics in scholarship about American religion, and the “worship wars” of the 1980s and ’90s have sparked a ...

Thus it is strange, considering the impression they made on the American mind for two decades, that those six hymnbooks in sober gray boards with black muslin backs, each accompanied by a smaller ...

It may be a good time to rethink whether swear words or curse words really qualify as such anymore. I mean we hear them with such frequency that they are almost indiscernible from the other regular ...

As adults, we can rattle off long sentences with no problem at all. This story is about one word that has a special meaning to the right person and some very short sentences that are wonderful to hear ...

A loving family, he and his sister were taught by their father to pray daily, and his mother taught him to read from the Bible. Their family, as many others, were poverty stricken. Philip would later ...