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Tag: Hymns
“To Serve This Present Age”: How Pastors and Worship Ministry Leaders Can Form God’s People through Music in Worship
The tension between tradition and relevance is not only a South African problem.
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Do You Sing Even when You Don’t Want to?
What songs has your parish sung during this Eastertide? Better yet, did any songs bring much rejoicing to your heart? Did any songs bring much weeping and gnashing of teeth?
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From Ashes to the Living Font
Pray Tell Blog’s own Alan Hommerding appeared as a guest on the latest episode of the Open Your Hymnal podcast, “From Ashes to the Living Font.”
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Hymns and Their Texts: Rhythmic, Rhymed Rituals of Language
As I prepared this talk, I also consulted with some of my hymn-text-writing colleagues. These are people who craft texts only, apart from music. I asked them questions along the lines of “why do you write hymn texts?” or “what value do you see in hymn texts?” and such. I don’t think it was a coincidence that there was a lot of resonance between their various responses, or that I was able to use their responses to sort my own perspectives together into six separate groups.
Read moreHymn Society in Richmond, VA
Theme this year is “Tree of Life and Love: The Blossoming of Song since Vatican II.”
Read moreNPM Winter Colloquium – Your Experience of Hymns and Antiphons?
What is your liturgical experience of hymns and antiphons?
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