Completed brackets are due April 30 for Hymn Tournament 2019, sponsored by the Hymn Society.
The tournament concludes July 18 during the society’s conference in Dallas. The society offers a downloadable bracket for anyone who wishes to compete. The tournament is designed for fun, not indignant debates, and one person will win a year-long membership in the Hymn Society.
The brackets include 32 hymns in four divisions:
Strophic Division
- Holy, Holy, Holy!
- Be Thou My Vision
- Come, Thou Fount
- Amazing Grace!
- Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
- All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name
- What a Friend We Have in Jesus
- O for a Thousand Tongues
Refrain Division
- When Peace, Like a River/It Is Well
- My Hope is Built/On Christ the Solid Rock
- To God Be the Glory
- O Come, All Ye Faithful
- On Eagle’s Wings
- Here I Am, Lord
- Because He Lives
- Leaning On the Everlasting Arms
Chant & Cyclical Division
- O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
- Of the Father’s Love Begotten
- Were You There
- Siyahamba
- Soon and Very Soon
- Jesus, Remember Me (Taize)
- Seek Ye First
- Ososo
CCLI & Staff Pick Division
- 10,000 Reasons
- In Christ Alone
- How Great Is Our God
- Mighty to Save
- Every Praise
- How Great Thou Art
- Canticle of the Turning
- Holy God, We Praise Your Name
Matthew Townsend is a Halifax-based freelance journalist and volunteer advocate for survivors of sexual misconduct in Anglican settings. He served as editor of the Anglican Journal from 2019 to 2021 and communications missioner for the Anglican Diocese of Quebec from 2019 to 2022. He and his wife recently entered catechism class in the Orthodox Church in America.
