{"id":3139,"date":"2010-07-14T19:14:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T00:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2010-12-21T00:19:20","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T06:19:20","slug":"hymn-society-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/14\/hymn-society-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Hymn Society, Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Morning prayer this week has been led by the team of Rev. Lia Scholl (a pastor shepherding a Mennonite church) and Cantor Jessica Roskin, who serves the congregation of Temple Emanu-El in Birmingham. Cantor Roskin has been leading us through a variety of songs in English and Hebrew &#8212; some ancient folk songs, some chants, some more recently composed pieces. I&#8217;ve been captivated by their beauty and I&#8217;m getting better at reading transliterated Hebrew.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday evening&#8217;s hymn festival took place at Sixth Avenue Baptist church in downtown Birmingham. Dr. James Abbington, associate professor at Emory University, is a scholar whose interests include spirituals and African American church music. He coordinated a festival of &#8220;unsung hymns by Black and unknown bards.&#8221;\u00a0 The Sixth Avenue Baptist Church Sanctuary Choir helped lead the singing. So besides singing &#8220;Steal Away&#8221; and &#8220;Nobody Knows the Trouble I&#8217;ve Seen,&#8221; we also sang songs that have been obscured by history, including a piece called &#8220;A Better Day is Coming&#8221; by Charles Tindley.\u00a0 I have learned seemingly dozens of spirituals this week that are all new to me.<\/p>\n<p>Our third plenary was given by Andrew Donaldson, who gave us a history of global church music. It was largely a story of the last thirty years, and it&#8217;s amazing to me how many of these songs have already entered the common repertory of many traditions. The talk also included a defense of the inclusion of global church music in a Christian church that is increasingly global. An idea that struck me was that this music is not just reaching those who are in our pews &#8212; it&#8217;s speaking to those who are not there yet.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>Chris \u00c1ngel<\/div>\n<div>MA Theology(Liturgy) student, Saint John&#8217;s University School of Theology\u00b7Seminary<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have learned seemingly dozens of spirituals this week that are all new to me&#8230;Our third plenary was given by Andrew Donaldson, who gave us a history of global church music. 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