Drawing on centuries of hymnody, the songwriting collective asks the question: “What else could we be singing about?” ...
Find out more about three new Easter-specific hymns and several other new releases in the Church’s new hymnbook project.
The twentieth and twenty first centuries have seen an explosion of new hymn writers and approaches. Old texts have been refreshed by new tunes and lots more contemporary hymns have sprung up.
Not long ago, I heard a comment about church hymnbooks somewhere getting old and worn, needing to be replaced. Don’t remember ...
To demonstrate that connection, several of the new hymns aren’t new at all ... the stated reasons for revising the hymnal is that the old hymnal expresses only “limited cultural representation ...