Polycarp of Smyrna

Today during this Christmas season I want to conclude a two-part series from Christian history […]

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Caedmon

The First English Hymnist The first known English poem is also the first known Christian […]

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Phoebe Hinsdale Brown–A Remarkable Life!

Plus the Story Behind the First American Missionary to Japan… One of the women I […]

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The Greatest Hymn You’ve Never Heard

  Te Deum Landamus: “Holy God, We Praise Thy Name” What’s the greatest hymn in […]

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The Incredible Ira Sankey

   A few  years ago, some folks in Florida gave me an 1894 edition of […]

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The Sound of Salzburg: Silent Night

The little city of Salzburg, Austria, could be called the most musical town on earth […]

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Teach a Course on the History of our Hymns

Every church I know has Bible studies. Why not devote a few weeks studying the […]

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Duly Noted

Today as I’ve been working on Then Sings My Soul Book 3 I came across […]

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Contagious Buoyancy

I don’t normally read old funeral sermons, let alone quote them. But yesterday while researching […]

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The Prince of Prague Who Ended Up in a Christmas Carol

You know about “Good King Wenceslas” from the Christmas carol. But do you realize the […]

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The Oxyrhynchus Hymn

After years of waffling about it, I’ve finally decided to add a third and final […]

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The Secret Chamber

Isaac Watts was a lifelong bachelor (he once proposed to a girl, was turned down). […]

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