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Software for publishing hymns

A new hymnal — or at least ready-to-reprint hymns — is one of the pre-conditions (among many) I see for Unitarian and Universalist Christians growing new churches. Singing the Living Tradition doesn’t have the corpus of hymns needed for a rounded Christian life, other denominational hymns often have their own limitations and besides — as [...]

Posted 05 January 2010 † Scott Wells § Linux § New Church Office ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged:

Got a copy of “Hymns for the Celebration of Life”

The eBay-ordered copy of the 1964 Hymns for the Celebration of Life, a.k.a the old blue Unitarian Universalist hymnal a.k.a. Hymns for the Celebration of Ken Patton arrived today.
I realized I wanted to say something about this — I felt a touch of nostalgia when I saw it offered on the auction site — but [...]

Posted 24 September 2009 † Scott Wells § Unitarian Universalist Association ‡ Comments (0) °

A collector’s item in the making

This is not good news. Makes you wonder what kind of editorial review process there was, but at least there’s a promised investigation after the fact. And how much did this cost; what else was not (and will not be) funded because of the error?
The first graf from the UUWorld story by Jane Greer:
Sales and [...]

Posted 24 August 2009 † Scott Wells § Unitarian Universalist Association ‡ Comments (2) °

“Glory be to God on high”

On the whole, I’m not thrilled with the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches’ Hymns for a Pilgrim People, but it does have a hymn that I dearly love and doesn’t get enough attention.
“Glory be to God on high” — matched to the Welsh tune Gwalchmai — was written in 1889 by Unitarian minister and [...]

Posted 05 August 2009 † Scott Wells § ‡ Comments (1) °

Reviewing Hymns for a Pilgrim People, part 1

It’s red. Any successor to the Pilgrim Hymnal ought to be. (Though my copy — which, for some reason I left at work!? — is blue.)
It’s big. 37.6 ounces and — well — American-hymnal sized. These days, when I see something that large, I want to know what the battery life is. Apart from moving [...]

Posted 01 August 2009 † Scott Wells § ‡ Comments (1) °

Congregationalist hymnal is here

After a recent blog post, I ordered the 2007 National Association of Congregational Christian Churches (NACCC) hymnal Hymns for a Pilgrim People, published by (nominally?) the Congregational Press and GIA, better known for its Catholic hymn resources.
I’ll review it in bits as I have the occasion.
First, it comes as a relief. We’re in a trough, [...]

Posted 30 July 2009 † Scott Wells § ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Challenge: shopping with Secretary Clinton

Yesterday, among stories about technology deployment, I read one featuring State Department employees who noted, before Secretary Hillary Clinton, a desire have the Firefox browser. I can appreciate that — it’s a good browser — but when an undersecretary pushed back (correctly) that nothing is really, in deployment and maintenance, cost-free, the Secretary replied from [...]

Posted 16 July 2009 † Scott Wells § Faith development ‡ Comments (1) °

What hymnal to choose for UU Christians?

Saturday night, Hubby and I watched the pilot episode of country-church-based Britcom, The Victor of Dibley (1994). I remember that from the look of the hymnals and the announced numbers that it was Hymns Ancient and Modern. Not a bad hymnal to have as a reference work; I do.
That year was about the end [...]

Posted 13 July 2009 † Scott Wells § Unitarian Universalist Association ‡ Comments (4) °

Favorite hymns

Haruo  — whose blog blends two of my interests: hymnology and Esperanto — notes a poll of favorite hymns at Semicolon. It ends tonight so I spent some time sorting my favorites so to add my favorites. (She was only asking for the top ten, but this includes everything on my short list.)

Guide me thou, [...]

Posted 31 May 2009 † Scott Wells § ‡ Comments (7) °

Anglican chant: how to?

Does anyone know of a good resource — online video especially desired — about Anglican chant? Either a how-to (better) or an explanation?

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Posted 23 April 2009 † Scott Wells § ‡ Comments (7) °