When we hear the word “liturgy,” images of church pews, hymn books, and words spoken in unison by people sitting in those ...

The Sacred Harp” is a pre-Civil War compilation of sacred songs that uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares ...

CORRECTS TO PRIMROSE, NOT PRIMEROSE - A 1911 edition of “The Sacred Harp,” a shape-note hymnal from the 1800s, opened to song ...

The service always includes one or more psalms. These ancient prayers, taken from the Old Testament, reflect the full range ...

A minute later, tears brimmed as I sang this joyous song alone at the front of the ... and so would helpfully direct the words from the hymn sheet towards my eyes, as though there was a causal link ...

For the twenty-two-year-old Anagarika Dharmapala, his encounter with the fifty-four-year-old Sir Edwin Arnold proved to be a ...

Welcome back, book lovers! This week ... Rosen's newest page-turner, Songs of Summer, set on idyllic Fire Island. The reigning Queen of Beach Reads Elin Hilderbrand even cheered about it ...

18 May, Acts 11.1-18; Psalm 148 (or 148.1-6); Revelation 21.1-6; John 13.31-35 JESUS calls the disciples and (by extension) us “little children”. The diminutive is affectionate (like calling an infant ...

Broadway costume designer Patricia Zipprodt (1925-99) tells her own colorful story, with Arnold Wengrow. Foreword by Joel Grey. From plunging into the developing Off-Broadway movement to charting ...

There’s a long history of hate groups using new technologies to spread their message. In the 1930s, it was radio. In the 2010s, it was social media. In 2025, it ...

After the white smoke cleared and the crowds drifted home singing hymns, I did something utterly ... push back against the siren song of authoritarian leaders--be they on the international stage ...