He brought me into his office and he told me the story and he said, ‘You have to promise me that you’ll get it to SFA for permanent preservation,’” Middlebrook said.

Along with ritual immersion, John the Baptist called people to moral reform. His essential message, like the prophets of Israel before him, was one of repentance from sin in anticipation of God’s ...

A new fence at a cemetery in unincorporated Snellville is causing some controversy. Families say it blocks access to graves where generations of loved ones lie buried. The church that bought the ...

It’s one of the most distinctive sounds in country and bluegrass music. You can hear it in the singing of Patty Loveless, Keith Whitley and Ricky Skaggs. The way these Appalachian-born singers bend ...

“Amazing Grace” as it appears in Ginny Hawker’s family heirloom songbook, Lloyd’s Primitive Baptist Hymns. You can see stains in the margins, left by the tobacco-covered hands of her aunt Annie Maud ...