“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’s” theme music is typified by the sounds of a melancholy stringed instrument. Without hearing it before, you might think the music was a special type of ...

Coupled with the eight fu (“blessings”), that is, the Beatitudes, printed in Chinese on the red envelopes, in this context, it embodies the essence of a gospel tract.

The slow-building song reached the top of Billboard’s Gospel Songs chart and crossed over to the R&B Adult Songs tally. It gave Cobbs Leonard her first No. 1 single and a Grammy for best gospel ...