Tag: Hymns
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Brief Book Review: A Theology of the Sacraments
Kimbrough and McIntyre have created a fine book for study groups willing to engage with new music.
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CFP: Doxology
Call for Papers: Doxology
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One More Disaster to Consider: How Many Deficient Catholic Hymns are in YOUR Hymnal?
Should we just automatically add these hymns to our personal “do not play” list?
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The Word became flesh . . . so what?
If the Word matters, then words matter.
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“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…
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Hymn Society in Richmond, VA
Theme this year is “Tree of Life and Love: The Blossoming of Song since Vatican II.”