It's almost more truth than I can bear to express," writes Henderson about a line from "Amazing Grace" in his brief meditation on the importance of hymns in American Christian life. Henderson, the ...

The Shaker hymn “Simple Gifts,” offers this counsel: 'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free, 'tis the gift to come down where we ought to be….” Like the hymn, Jesus’ lesson to his ...

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