The 27 worship songs that have made the hymnal cut time and again. There are many ways to identify the most lasting or best loved hymns among American Protestants. But what would we find by looking at ...

Jennifer Ceska, the conservation coordinator at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia in Athens, was recently flown to California to attend a conference of the American Public Gardens Association.

Old church Bibles and hymnals turn up at estate sales, antique shops, and dusty storage rooms in church basements — sometimes still marked with a family’s name in faded pencil, sometimes stuffed with ...