I’m thinking, the UK Unitarian and Free Christian hymnal Hymns for Living (the green one) is now twenty-two years old. That’s pretty old for a hymnal. I like the unofficial competition, Hymns of Faith and Freedom, more but isn’t much younger and suffers for being words-only. (An aside to American Unitarian Universalists: the much smaller […]
I read two very interesting faith statements — I dare not call them anything else; they had no formal denominational standing — and have typed them below. These are prescribed in one of the Sunday school services in The Life Hymnal: A Book of Song and Service for the Sunday School by Stanford Mitchell and […]
Last month I wrote about how I enjoyed and recommended Rev. Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping. Brilliant political theater. You can listen to some of the group’s songs: I’m especially fond of #3 on the media player, “(Shop Enough for) Africa”
But I think their anthem — my favorite anyway — is “The […]
and the Church of Stop Shopping.
I’ve been following him/them for quite a while.
Love the look. (UUEnforcer, are you taking notes?) Love the message. Love the music.
Here’s a movement I could believe in. Heck, I’d show up on Sunday. And it looks like Reverend Billy is on tour.
Remember: Shopping keeps the demons in the zoo . […]
Be prepared children: we’re heading for heavy church-geek waters.
The Rev. Chris Tessone (Even the Devils Believe) has typeset some public-domain chant settings using a TeX-derived application, OpusTeX. TeX (pronounced with a Greek chi) is a venerable typesetting system, still widely used through template packages and even graphic interfaces. In computing terms, there’s something foundational and […]
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The National Association of Congregational Christian Churches — which has official “fraternal relations” with the Council of Christian Churches in the Unitarian Universalist Association; I know it is a preferred exit for some Unitarian Universalist Christians — has made progress on its new hymnal, due for publication next year.
For the included hymns in (title now […]
The eponymous Jess (Jess’s Journal) makes me happy because she knows how to make an S-ending name possessive correctly, a tiny matter that has long bristled me. Still flu-ish, I guess I bristle easily.
The same Jess has also pointed out the difference between simple and simplistic music in worship. The low estate of Unitarian Universalist […]
Richard Hurst today asked me some technical questions about (”the red hymnal”) Hymns of the Spirit — its nice to have a speciality, if an arcane one — and I thought I’d unpack little-known tid-bits with you. In particular, I wanted to share an old semi-secret about how that hymnal was put together.
I mentioned the Esperanto hymnal I just got. Don’t laugh. This means you.
I realized that if you take the translated-from-English hymns in this collection, plus the Consultation on Ecumenical Hymnody’s 150 and you get a really good working set for a moderate to liberal Protestant church. Particularly good since these are mainly in the public […]
