If the Shakers have a lasting cultural legacy, it is their music — most famously “Simple Gifts,” the uplifting spiritual Aaron Copland immortalized in his ballet “Appalachian Spring.” It stands to ...

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While churches praise God from whom all blessings flow, they don’t praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. The Trinity almost never comes up in the songs sung by American Christians, according to a new ...

You need not be a sage to practice meditation. With the scientifically-proven benefits of meditation and prayer, like reduced stress and improved concentration, you can lead a happier and more ...

Reflections on the life and works of Johann Sebastian Bach. 'The composer took a single great theme and subjected it to contrapuntal variations of immeasurable variety, poetry and imagination.' 'It ...

When dawn arrives in China you can hear people praying. They are rejoicing in the Great Love that unites all the peoples of the world. These prayers soar over the highest mountains and melt the ice ...

The practice of meditation has recently made the leap from alternative tradition to mainstream trend. Not only has it been scientifically shown to reduce anxiety, depression, fatigue and insomnia; but ...

Walter Chalmers Smith 1824-1908 penned the famous hymn “Immortal Invisible, God only wise” but few know that his second stanza's first two words were quoted by Adolf Hitler in his description of the ...

Injured Castaic mountain lion cub taken from L.A. Zoo to Northern California for rehab A mountain lion cub found injured and alone on a road in Castaic last week has been flown to Northern California ...

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