John Fawcett was an English pastor and hymn writer born in 1739. He is best known for writing the hymn Blest Be the Tie That Binds. He served as a minister for many years and was deeply devoted to ...

John Fawcett, 1740-1817, wrote the first line of a popular gospel song, approximately 200 years ago, with "Blest be the tie that binds, Our hearts in Christian love . . ." When used as a verb the ...

The wealth of Abraham marks him as blessed by God, for example. Job’s initial wealth is connected to his faithfulness (1:1–3, 9–10), and Ecclesiastes says possessions come from God’s hand ...

As time goes on, I’ll probably find more uses for twine. Whatever they are, I’ll be grateful for access to the tie that binds. Ann Bailey lives on a farmstead near Larimore, N.D., that has ...

Call it a case of extremely bad faith. A Pittsburgh synagogue is suing one of its members for failing to pay up a $25,000 pledge he made to the temple’s capital campaign. “We are a ...

The U.S. Senate is a challenge to write about. Significant decisions are sometimes made and then changed. I am not talking about the government shutdown, but the Senate dress code. Men were ...

JODY ARMOUR is a professor at USC School of Law. THE TAX MAN recently paid me a nighttime visit on a public street in South L.A. His levy came as I sat in my parked car on Martin Luther King Jr ...

If the 112 million Americans who claim a religious affiliation had given one-tenth—the traditional tithe—of their personal income to churches, that total could have topped $25 billion.