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Elisha A. Hoffman was an American Presbyterian minister and a famous hymn writer, born in 1839 in Pennsylvania. He grew up in a musical family, singing hymns at home and in church, which inspired his ...

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BALTIMORE — Some Catholics have long complained that traditional hymns have been “modernized,” “vandalized” and “feminized” for “political correctness” at the expense of art and theology. Last month, ...

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To create their secular-hymn criteria, the trio looked at Cohen’s “Hallelujah” as a baseline and explored other songs that have been used repeatedly in public settings for purposes that cross over ...

Elisha A. Hoffman was an American Presbyterian minister and a well-known hymn writer. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1839 and lived until 1929. He wrote the lyrics for many hymns, including “Leaning ...

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