The science writer pragmatically shows how optimism can bring about real improvements in everyday life and change in the wider world Can optimism influence events in your life? Does fate smile upon ...

Researchers have rediscovered a long-lost Babylonian hymn from 1000 BCE, using artificial intelligence to piece together fragments scattered across the world. The hymn glorifies ancient Babylon’s ...

For forty years, the voices of the faithful have been guided by the vision and legacy of those who shaped The Hymnal 1982. Now Church Publishing is pleased to announce the publication, in November, of ...

“Amazing Grace” as it appears in Ginny Hawker’s family heirloom songbook, Lloyd’s Primitive Baptist Hymns. You can see stains in the margins, left by the tobacco-covered hands of her aunt Annie Maud ...

St. Francis of Assisi was a 13th-century Italian friar and preacher. Although Francis was not primarily a singer, his writings, especially this hymn, have influenced Christian worship deeply. He grew ...

In the course of a collaboration with the University of Baghdad, LMU's Enrique Jiménez has rediscovered a text that had been lost for a thousand years. A paper on this discovery is published in the ...

As dawn barely touched the horizon, the lanes around Secunderabad’s Clock Tower and Sarojini Devi Nagar had already sprung to life. It was just past 5 a.m. on Sunday (April 20, 2025), and the streets ...

DREXEL HILL, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Community members in Drexel Hill gathered to celebrate new and old traditions of Easter. It took place at Incarnation Holy Sacrament Episcopal Church. They started ...

With Resurrection Day right around the corner it’s time to start planning which beloved Easter hymns to sing this year. Whether you grew up in a Baptist church and know each of these traditional ...

This prayer of Ireland's patron saint has come down through the centuries and remains popular today and we think you'll agree it's more relevant than ever. St. Patrick's Breastplate is a Christian ...

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As we look at another New Year’s Day, it’s a good time to reflect on a song that unites rather than divides us: the Rev. John Newton’s hymn “Amazing Grace.” The hymn first appeared in Newton’s New ...