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Bishop Timothy Dudley-Smith (1926-2024)

Timothy Dudley-Smith, who wrote “Tell Out My Soul” and more than other 400 hymns and served as Bishop of Thetford from 1981 to 1992, died August 12 at 97.

A Hymn for Easter

Christ is risen, he has conquered Now the stone is rolled away Joseph's tomb once more lies empty At the dawn of Easter Day Weeping women in the...

Prolific Hymn Poet Rae E. Whitney (1927-2023)

Through her hymns, we learn about this remarkable woman: her care for God’s creation; her commitment to social justice; her scholarly depth; her lifelong interests in church history and ecumenism; her celebration of women’s ministries.

Of Canons and Hymns

By Daniel Martins During my education at a decidedly non-liturgical Christian liberal arts college in the early 1970s, because I was a music major, I...

The Apple Tree and the Long New Year

The ending of a year and beginning of another is a more liminal and porous transition than first imagined. We experience some certainty about...

I Hate That Hymn

The only thing complained about in church more often than the lousy sermon is the lousy music. Bad preaching we learn to begrudgingly tolerate...

The Way of Love: Rest

By Garwood P. Anderson “Come, Labor On.” Most Episcopalians will know that hymn, #542 in our 1982 Hymnal, to the tune of Ora Labora (Pray...

Losses at the Holidays

By Marisa Crofts Some of us have lost family members. Some of us have lost jobs. All of us have lost something at some point...

God’s Amazing Grace

By Bryan Owen Amazing grace! How sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, was blind but...

Of Hymns and Missionaries

By Daniel Martins One of the spiritual practices in which I regularly engage is to sit down at a piano or organ keyboard with a...

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