The rousing urgency of the song seems to possess a power that, according to its own lyrics, “transfigures you and me.” ...

Poet, philosopher, and suffragist Julia Ward Howe wrote a rallying cry in 1861 that would resonate for more than a ...

Many people think they know the story of the hymn,"Amazing Grace." The commonly accepted narrative presents its composer, John Newton, a young English captain of a late 18th-century slave ship, as a ...

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 ...

Jesus Loves Me lyrics have crossed every language and continent. Find the full hymn and its history all in one place. Just go ...

The author of the popular Easter hymn was a leading figure in a female-centred circle of mystic-visionaries, writes Sarah Apetrei AROUND the English-speaking world on Easter morning, after two ...

‘Senthamizh veru, Chennai Thamizh veru (pure Tamil is different from Chennai Tamil)’,” says American author John A Loud, seated in a home in Madurai, from where he and V A Vidya, a retired professor, ...