If America ever had lords and ladies, surely Phoebe P. Knapp would have belonged among the ladies. She was the daughter of two notable Christian leaders, Walter and Phoebe Palmer. To this day Phoebe Palmer is hailed as one of the most prominent religious women of the 1800s, author of the classic The Way of […]
Growing up in the late 1600s in Southampton, England, Isaac Watts was a prodigy who mastered Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and French as a teenager and was already writing poems and hymns. In his twenties, Watts was a rebel. His rebellion had to do with church music. For centuries, psalm singing was the accepted form, the […]