Friday was a noteworthy day at Day Job and included — among other things — a lunchtime round of Guitar Hero. (Don’t ask.) I was very kindly asked to participate but
<li>the music associated with the game is very much what I call Straight Boy Rock, and I don’t care for it. (Had there been <em>Synth […]
Chris Walton (Philocrites) brings to our attention the new hymnal Harvard University’s Memorial Church will dedicate tomorrow. This is that hymnal’s fourth edition; the third edition coming from 1964. Learning its lineage, I made a quick Google search and uncovered the first and second editions dating to 1895 and 1907 respectively. These may be downloaded […]
I had been following the development of the new hymnal of the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches — that is, most of the Congregationalists that didn’t go in with the United Church of Christ — but let the actual release of the title slip up on me.
This is of especial interest to Unitarian Universalists, […]
I know there are a couple of Doctor Who viewers here at least; in the United States, the new episodes are running a scant few months after their original BBC run, so this open thought goes out to my UK readers, too. But there might be a mild spoiler for some of you, so be […]
Not the hymn, which I think will be with us in some form — recovered or new — for a very long time, but the compiled and printed hymnal that I both love and which often fails to impress me. And sometimes fails congregations.
Hymnals are frozen in time. Because they are expensive to produce and […]
Unitarian Universalist minister Eric Posa comments in the prior post about Singing the Journey
On another hymnody issue: Is there anything in Singing the Living Tradition that you especially like to complement preaching on Universalism? I don’t mean Humiliati/Ken Patton universal religion, but universal salvation. (I’m doing a sermon series at my new church on salvation, […]
I ordered a copy of the UUA hymnal supplement Singing the Journey and it came today. Some of the hymns (songs, choruses? who is the audience?) are familiar because I sang them at General Assembly (which does not auger well) and one is familar because I remember it from The Muppet Show (which I like, […]
I misremembered the name and some of the details of the Sunday school hymnal Derek and I like. The Beacon Song and Service Book, unlike the later (1935, not earlier) joint Unitarian-Universalist Hymns of the Spirit is a Unitarian only production. Judging by the dates of some of the now-classic hymns, this relatively small volume […]
Thinking out loud, what would it take to produce a small hymnal suitable for the smallest fifth of Unitarian Universalist churches? (And by extension, new congregations and perhaps not a few overseas.) For the sake of argument, I mean the “UU mainline” that has a somewhat removed, but not exclusionary, tack towards Christian hymnody.
Later. A […]
Liveblogging. For the Doctor Who watchers out there. Not to spoil anything, but did you sing along?
Spoiler below the fold.
