It’s hard to find hymns that embody Scripture’s sharp critique of the rich. When Mary came to visit, Elizabeth's child leaped in her womb. Mary's spirit, too, jumped to a higher plane. In the inspired ...
When I was 15, I was cajoled into playing the role of Mary in our church’s Christmas nativity scene. I was embarrassed, stuffing a pillow under a robe to signify pregnancy, but I felt I had no choice: ...
The song proclaims an upset, but this revolution is not like others. My soul doth magnify the Lord … He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their ...
As we enter the Christmas season, churches from historic mission denominations such as The Methodist Church Ghana will once more resound with ancient canticles, scriptural hymns drawn directly from ...
Jesus must have learned his prophetic ministry from his mother. She was the one who said, “The Lord has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly; God has filled the hungry ...
A smile beams in Sister Carmela Muscat’s eyes as she sings the Magnificat, a thanksgiving hymn, which has become her trademark tune at the Convent of the Sacred Heart’s Tal-Virtù home for the elderly.