But the song’s lyrics can be a bit equivocal. Is the cross an instrument of torture, a terrible sacrifice? Or is it a “triumphant sign,” a “glorious tree”?

Exaltation of the Cross The Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross focuses on what photographers call the “decisive moment,” that image in a continuum of images that, if viewed with insight ...

In October 2003 when we were inaugurating the Prayerhouse Ministry in Kumasi, I went to town in search of Bibles, Hymn Books, and Crucifixes or Crosses to place in each room to assist individuals ...

As a crowd of about 150 people stood in front of the historic Church of the Assumption in Nashville, Bishop J. Mark Spalding recalled the lyrics of the hymn “Lift High the Cross.” ...

What is the Black National Anthem? “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was a hymn written as a poem by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson in 1900, according to the organization.