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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

This freed up a lot of my time for more constructive debates about how many days it took God to make the ingrates who believe they were spawned by apes. These days I had time to think about why ...

Devotion, by contrast, has a perennial audience. The manner in which a devout Indian communicates with his God has changed over the years. At my workplace, I often find a couple of my formally ...

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 ...

Anyone who has attended one or more official, including state, funerals in our country will know that old hymn, “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” played to such great effect by even the worst-tuned of bands.

Why is it also called the God particle?Most physicists dislike the name, but it is apt in the sense that the field associated with the Higgs particle is thought to endow all other particles with mass.