"The Old Rugged Cross" is a popular hymn written in 1912 by American evangelist and song-leader George Bennard See more

George Bennard was a native of Youngstown, Ohio, but was reared in Iowa. After his conversion in a Salvation Army meeting, he and his wife became brigade leaders before leaving the organization for the Method… See more

"The Old Rugged Cross" has been a country gospel favorite ever since it became the title song of Ernest Tubb's 1952 gospel album; it has been performed by some of the twentieth century's most important recording a… See more

On a hill far away Stood an old rugged Cross The emblem of suff'ring and shame And I love that old Cross Where the dearest and best For a world of lost sinners was slain
So I'll cheri… See more

In his art parody volume Art Afterpieces, Ward Kimball created a variation on the painting Expulsion from Paradise by the 15th-century artist Giovanni di Paolo, which shows God pointing at a large circle below him. Kimba… See more