Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Titled “Campaigning to the Choir,” Ms Greene’s piece is by-lined “Russellville, Tennessee,” and is designed to ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Listen to the official audio of Joseph Spence's "Give Me That Old Time Religion," a widely disseminated American traditional spiritual dating to ...

Gathered last week in four Atlanta auditoriums linked by closed-circuit television, 40,462 ”messengers” to the annual Southern Baptist Convention clapped their hands and sang, ”Give me that old-time ...

1. New Morning Train 2. Harmonica Rag 3. Rubber Dolly 4. More Pretty Girls Than One 5. Rubber Dolly 6. Bound for Glory 7. Wabash Cannonball 8. Give Me That Old Time Religion 9. Nine Pound Hammer 10.

Notre Dame sociology professor Christian Smith knows that statistics about plummeting church attendance and rising numbers of "nones"—people who claim no religious identity—aren't new. Now, in the ...

To understand why last week's meeting of the Culpeper Town Council started with a moment of silence instead of a prayer, you have to know that in today's America, fear of being sued trumps just about ...

There’s something sermonic about the speeches of Shawn Fain, the president of the currently striking United Auto Workers. Since autoworkers began targeted work stoppages following the expiration of ...

Do you remember the good old days? Some of you ask: “what good old days?” or ‘what was so good about them?” I am referring to the days when radio and TV stations as well as record companies remembered ...