Hymn-singing as an activity is admittedly nowhere near as common as it once was, and that is probably true inside churches as well as beyond their walls. So what is the point of singing hymns? Here are ten benefits worth bearing in mind. Hymn-singing is Physical This may seem a strange thing to say, yet it is true. When we …
Treasure No 72: What are we saying by singing?
Treasure No 72: What are we saying by singing? By Rowan Williams An article from Bulletin 249, October 2006 (A transcript of the paper given to the Conference of the Society in July 2006, printed with the author’s permission) chose that title because I am aware that there is a kind of assumption very often around in the church and …
Bulletin 243 Volume 17 No10 April 2005
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Treasure No 56: Ten Golden Rules
Treasure No 56: Ten Golden Rules by John Bell: An article from Bulletin 185, Autumn 1990, for enabling the least confident of people to teach new songs to the most cynical of congregations Believe in the voice which God has given you. It is the voice of an apprentice angel. Believe in the voices God has given other people. Years …
Treasure No 55: Hymns in the Early Church
Treasure No 55: Hymns in the Early Church by John Ferguson: An article from Bulletin 180, Summer 1989 (Adapted from an address given to the William Temple Society, York) the ancient Greek world a hymn was a metrical address to a god. In Homer’s Iliad (1.472–4) we read: They all day long sought to appease the god in song, …
Treasure No 42: The Hymn Today
Treasure No 42: The Hymn Today: An article from Bulletin 138, Winter 1977 Under this title a symposium was presented at the Society’s Conference at Norwich last year. Here we print the substance of what each speaker said on that occasion (or, more accurately, what he would have said had time allowed). i. The Challenge of the Words by Brian …