“The Old Rugged Cross” was my grandfather’s favorite hymn so every time we sing it I am reminded of him. I remember something funny about my Aunt Mae singing it. She did not understand all of the ...

When polls are taken to determine the most popular American hymns, invariably near the top of the list is "The Old Rugged Cross." It has been the most favored of the approximate 300 songs written by ...

POKAGON - As the driving force with her husband, Bob, behind the Old Rugged Cross Church restoration project, Molly Shaffer knows quite a bit about the church's history. As might be expected, she's ...

Lake Park Cemetery Trustee Mark Luke, left, stands with Dr. Charles Wilkins, a newspaper letter writer who wrote about the Gospel hymn “The Old Rugged Cross” and its Youngstown native author — the Rev ...

POKAGON, Mich. -- -- Any way you look at it, the weathered wooden building near the center of this southwestern Michigan hamlet is a piece of history. You could look at the way it's built, with hewn ...

The museum you’re about to learn about is sometimes tagged as a religious museum, but it’s not. It’s a place to learn, imagine what used to be and maybe even find part of yourself in a song. “This ...

A few years ago, I was on a certain country road in the farmland outside of Albia, Iowa. A farmer friend of mine told me that Pastor George Bennard, the composer of the hymn “The Old Rugged Cross,” ...