To contact Lindsay Terry, email lindsay976@earthlink.net. The Smithsonian Institute called this song by Doris Akers a "national treasure." Akers, born into an African-American family in Brookfield, ...

At Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Ashburton yesterday, parishioners sang a hymn declaring “there is a sweet, sweet spirit in this place,” while across town archdiocese officials announced plans to ...

While the congregation stood on dusty concrete floors and sang "Sweet, Sweet Spirit" from Baptist hymnals, Pastor Eddie Hughes slipped quietly outside the sanctuary of Ashby Baptist Church in Bibb ...