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Hymnals in many churches went the way of VCRs and cassette tapes, in favor of big screens and downloading worship songs through licenses with liturgical music publishers. Now, however, books of ...

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“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 ...

Compiling a hymnal for his fellow Methodists in 1761, John Wesley admonished them to “sing lustily,” keeping always “an eye to God in every word you sing.” True to his urging, Methodists have always ...

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For at least 500 years, Babylonian children were tasked with memorizing a hymn that celebrated the city of Babylon, its citizenry, and chief deity Marduk. There was much to praise: the city was ...

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 ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Parents at an East Bay elementary are having some difficult conversations with their children Monday night after a very racist expression wound up in the school's yearbook ...