Month: April 2020
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In Isolation: April 4, 2020, “Renewing Our Spirits”
An introduction to this “In Isolation” blog series appears at the top of the March 22 post. It is fairly common practice that, when hymnbooks are assembled, the selected song and hymn titles are determined by the first line of the text. There is good justification for this on numerous counts. However, I believe that […]
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18 Versions for “Caterpillar” added
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In Isolation: April 3, Four hymns for when children are leaving worship
An introduction to this “In Isolation” blog series appears at the top of the March 22 post. Today’s hymn offering is actually a set of four — four short songs with words by Fred Kaan. Written when he served at Central Ecumenical Church in Swindon, England, they were intended to be used at the time […]
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In Isolation: April 2, “A Hymn on Holy Rest”
An introduction to this “In Isolation” blog series appears at the top of the March 22 post. Following up on the very first of these In Isolation entries (“Simply to Be”) which appeared on March 22, it felt like a good idea to focus on ‘rest’. Ironically, we are finding that this forced isolation has […]
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In Isolation: April 1, “Would You Bless Our Homes and Families”
An introduction to this “In Isolation” blog series appears at the top of the March 22 post. A new subscriber signed on to the site who, unwittingly, inspired today’s hymn/poem. This new member of the Musiklus family is from Singapore and the very first title they chose to download was “Would You Bless Our Homes […]
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