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.” ...

The string players performed ‘Nearer, my God, to thee’, a 19th-century hymn published in Hymns and Anthems – a tome used at South Place Chapel, Finsbury, London – in 1841. The Hymn, which was written ...

The Piano Guys are known for their creative arrangements of well-known music, and this version of Nearer My God to Thee is no exception. It's based on a vocal arrangement for nine singers, but each ...

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.

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 ...