FROM the soil of the monastic life, which might seem, for many reasons, to have been unfavorable to such a development, there sprang and bloomed some of the rarest flowers of Christian poetry. There ...

It's one of the most distinctive sounds in country and bluegrass music. You can hear it in the singing of Patty Loveless, Keith Whitley and Ricky Skaggs. The way these Appalachian-born singers bend ...

DALLAS — A funny thing happened last summer at Lake Pointe Church in Rockwall, Texas. A shipment of hymn books arrived, and not by mistake. Lake Pointe is a megachurch with contemporary-style worship.