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The 13 new songs from “Hymns — For Home and Church” are a mixture of some written in the past few years and some beloved Christian and Latter-day Saint standbys, including “Come, Thou ...
It’s impossible to predict which hymns will take off, as the 1985 committee members who expected “Behold the Mountain of the Lord” to become a hit could tell you.
Claire McCollum meets world-renowned hymn writers and music artists Keith and Kristyn Getty in Northern Ireland to explore their journey of faith. She finds out how faith and music are intertwined in ...
The table presents the 13 hymns that have appeared in all 28 hymnals, as well as 9 others that appear in 27 of the 28 hymnals, and 5 more that appear in 26 of the 28 hymnals.
Anchor Hymns brought together a community of musicians that was still reeling from the isolation and uncertainty of the pandemic. Some were mourning the deaths of friends and loved ones.
They knew that “Amazing Grace” would make the cut, and that “How Great Thou Art” was a sure thing. The committee that chose the 250 hymns for Hymns for Worship, considered these songs “classical hymns ...
In fact, in a 2013 survey of the best-loved hymns in the U.K., "In Christ Alone" was the second most-popular hymn of all time, just behind "How Great Thou Art." ...
The hymns that can be recast with “Zion” as an idealized “pure in heart” theme can stay (e.g., No. 41, No. 47), while the ones that explicitly refer to Zion as a mountain refuge or that ...
The hymns that can be recast with “Zion” as an idealized “pure in heart” theme can stay (e.g., #41, #47), while the ones that explicitly refer to Zion as a mountain refuge or that are just ...