Nearer My God to Thee This depicts how most human beings feel about dying -- at least about their own deaths. Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after ...

This depicts how most human beings feel about dying -- at least about their own deaths. Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss.

A 19th-century Christian hymn, “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” was written by English poet and hymn writer Sarah Flower Adams. Published in 1841, it was inspired by the story of Jacob’s dream in ...

In a message last month to the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics, Pope Francis said, “Thanks to God’s grace and to the work of many, we now have vaccines to protect us from COVID-19.” ...

Complaining or even disputing with the gods, or with a particular god, in an intimate manner ... when I complain to thee,/ Yet I would plead my case before thee"). Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89 ...

Is there really nothing to be done about that would-be carilloneur who shatters the foggy calm of each early Sabbath morn with one-finger renditions of such dear old favorites as "Nearer My God To ...