Anyone who has stood in church and sung "Blessed Assurance" or "Redeemed, How I Love to Proclaim It" is familiar with the work of Fanny Crosby (1820–1915), one of America's most esteemed and prolific ...

I confess that when I was younger, my mind would sometimes wander during church on Sunday mornings, particularly if the sermon was long. At times like that, I’d pick up a hymnal and go through the ...