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Celebrating a New African American Ecumenical Hymnal

Perhaps One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism can be used as an example of how hymnal revision can proceed without depending on prayer book revision.

Singing of Easter

Fr. Lawrence Crumb: “There are many joys to the Easter season, but the greatest joy, I think, is singing Easter hymns.”

Keep 1982 Hymnals Handy

Liturgists, musicians are cautious about revising the hymnal.

The double cure

Toplady's “Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me” qualifies as one of the richest hymns, with its biblical allusions, soteriological vision, and complex history.

Queen Honors Irish Hymn-writer

Three years after a snub by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), composer Keith Getty joins the OBE.

Nebraska Honors Rae E. Whitney

“Often starting with a familiar Biblical image, her hymns relate the gospel to the present age.”

Vicar Keeps Melodies Alive

A conversation with Archbishop Rowan Williams inspired Fr. Paul Bigmore’s Songs of Praise.

Singing amid Crises

Free hymns are available for two months after a crisis, thanks to the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada.

12 Hymns, Recast

Kate Eaton’s settings drive home the message that Christ reigns over all cultures of the world.

Stephen, full of power and grace

Could I ask, with the martyr St. Stephen, "O Lord, give me every disadvantage, every difficulty, every hardness. Send me out with no tools, no friends, no worldly hopes of vengeance or reward. Put me among the hateful, the violent, the diseased, the unstable"?

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