In many churches today it seems that hymns have disappeared or are very rarely sung. They have been supplanted by praise music, which for the most part, is quite different. To be sure, congregations ...

(RNS) — In the 1890s, a pair of British archaeologists began digging in an ancient rubbish heap at the edge of the ruins of Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, looking for a glimpse into the city’s past. They’d ...