The Daily Yonder highlights a centuries-old Appalachian hymn singing tradition, still uplifting souls through heartfelt ...

FROM the soil of the monastic life, which might seem, for many reasons, to have been unfavorable to such a development, there sprang and bloomed some of the rarest flowers of Christian poetry. There ...

Lake Park Cemetery Trustee Mark Luke, left, stands with Dr. Charles Wilkins, a newspaper letter writer who wrote about the Gospel hymn “The Old Rugged Cross” and its Youngstown native author — the Rev ...

Five hundred years after Martin Luther and a colleague published their first hymnal, Princeton Theological Seminary Professor Emeritus Paul Rorem has written a book that provides what his publisher ...

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