I love this time of the year! It is that time between the holidays, Thanksgiving is past, and everyone has decorated for Christmas. The stores are filled with Christmas items and everywhere you ...

The18th-century hymn writer Isaac Watts initially penned the lyrics for “Joy to the World” as a rhyming paraphrase of Psalm 98, and his poem was first published in 1719. It became a Christmas ...

Isaac Watts’s 1719 paraphrase of Psalm 98 became a Christmas classic when it was ... and described the music of “Joy to the World” as being “after G. F. Handel.” While there are fleeting ...