Articles

Getting to know a hymnwriter whose challenging hymns should be better known.     see details / comment

Anna Briggs finds the challenges and gifts of faith within our hardest human experiences.     see details / comment

Laurence Wareing asks which hymns best reflect individual saints. He begins with St Thomas, whose story is re-told on the 2nd Sunday of Easter.     see details / comment

Responding to the love of God shown to us on the cross.     see details / comment

A few simple suggestions for getting started with singing unaccompanied     see details / comment

Links and suggestions for additional Lent resources     see details / comment

Two new hymns for Remembrance Sunday raise questions about commemorating fallen service personnel in worship.     see details / comment

Are Christians who argue over what to sing missing the point? The Revd Owain Jones thinks they are.     see details / comment

Is there a case for reclaiming Halloween as an intrinsic element of the Christian celebration of All Saints? Laurence Wareing believes there may be.     see details / comment

Three hymns included in Singing the Faith offer a different perspective on Mothering Sunday for those who find it a difficult day.     see details / comment

An account of the seven-year process that led to the publication of Singing the Faith, told throuh a timeline of key dates.     see details / comment

Three contrasting hymns have been included in Singing the Faith to accompany the week-by-week lighting of Advent candles.     see details / comment

Why should we use traditional folk melodies in our worship? Popular hymn writer John Bell has a few suggestions.     see details / comment

Immediate relevance is important in our sung worship, argues the Revd Andrew Pratt. Here, he writes of how others have responded to some of his own texts – and explains why immediate responses can have lasting value.     see details / comment

A prayer in time of need

“Songs are a way of connecting with the things that people are experiencing,” says Clare Stainsby. Clare describes how a time of heartfelt prayer led to the writing of “Here as we kneel”.     see details / comment

A new tune may take time to catch on, says American writer and composer, Dan Damon, but there are ways in which you can make yours more memorable.     see details / comment

In the Revd Norman Goreham’s response to the 2011 Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand, images of destruction are combined with biblical examples to make a hymn of lasting value. Norman describes how he did it.     see details / comment

New meanings in old chains

When Brian Wren began to write “Great God, your love has called us here”, he wasn’t setting out to replace Charles Wesley’s “And can it be”. However, he did believe that there was more to be said about the themes contained in what is, arguably, Methodism’s defining “anthem”.     see details / comment

The lectionary – a very good place to start

Bible readings set for a particular Sunday have often offered Alan Hinton insipiration for hymn writing     see details / comment

The great fountain of an English stately home inspired Brian Hoare to write the melody for his hymn ‘Born in Song!’ – but his words are rooted deep in Methodist tradition.     see details / comment