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Bulletin 298 Volume 22 No5 Winter 2019
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Singing Welcome II
Singing Welcome II: Hymns and Songs of Hospitality to Refugees and Immigrants Search for New Hymns / Songs In May, 2017, The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada released Singing Welcome: Hymns and Songs of Hospitality to Refugees and Immigrants, a free, downloadable compilation of over 40 congregational songs for worship. The collection has been downloaded more than …
Occasional Papers 3 No10: Hymns and War
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Subliminal Influences
Subliminal Influences – a talk with musical examples by Malcolm Sturgess given during the 2016 Conference at St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.
Short Guide No 26: Myths about Hymns
Here are half a dozen ideas about hymnody which may – or may not – contain a grain of truth … as seen by a self-confessed hymn lover. Myth: Hymns are old, songs are new Or maybe not … Beginning in what came to be called the “hymn explosion” in the 1960’s, huge numbers of new hymns in English have …
Occasional Papers 3 No8: Faith, Hymns and Poetry
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Bulletin 283 Volume 21 No2 Spring 2015
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Short Guide No 13: Using Hymns in All-Age Worship
Some services are designated as ‘all-age’. What does this imply? Ideally, all worship should be suitable for everyone in a worshipping community. ‘Our Father’ should mean what it says, without alienating people because of their age or cultural background. So, the term ‘all-age’ usually means a service for both adults and children, with a special emphasis on families. The potential …
Short Guide No 5: How Can We Encourage the Use of Hymns in Worship?
Some ideas to be shared with worship leaders Have a suitable range of hymns available to illustrate the session. A group of well prepared musicians is a great asset! You must involve the audience throughout and be sensitive to people’s interests and concerns. Encourage participation and aim to stimulate discussion which leads to positive outcomes. These notes represent one way …
Short Guide No 3: Which Hymns and Songs Should we Use?
Have you been asked to put together a worship service, such as a Sunday morning or evening church service? Then here are some questions to use in reflecting on what you have chosen; not all questions will be appropriate for every occasion. Our various responses to God 1. Do these particular hymns and songs give a sense of the holy …
Short Guide No 2: What Types of Hymns and Songs are Available?
Once, it was “hymns”. In recent years, many churches have adopted “worship songs” – sometimes alongside hymns, sometimes instead. Inevitably, however, the picture is far more complex than this. There are many different genres available for congregational use; here are a few of the main types and some of their strengths. Traditional Hymns Traditional hymns began to be written in …
Bulletin 266 Volume 19 No9 January 2011
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Bulletin 264 Volume 19 No7 July 2010
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Treasure No 76: Producing 5,842 hymns
Treasure No 76: Producing 5,842 hymns by Bert Tosh An Article from Bulletin 262, January 2010 (A transcript of the paper given to the Hymn Society Conference of 2009) hen your President asked me for a title for this talk and I came up with ‘Producing 5,842 hymns’, I wondered if you thought there was another Charles Wesley in your …
Bulletin 262 Volume 19 No5 January 2010
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Occasional Papers 3 No2: What Do Hymns Say About Daily Work?
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Bulletin 260 Volume 19 No3 July 2009
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