Category: Hymn of the Week

The Rev. Dr. Mike McMahon, executive director of The Hymn Society, offers this note about Ascension’s Hymn of the Week for December […]

Darkness hangs, the world is aching, yearning for the coming light. In His rising hope awaking, love has come to steal the […]

Billy Foote is a singer/songwriter/podcaster who has settled in Amarillo, TX, after a time of itinerant music ministry with his wife and […]

New Zealand hymn text writer Shirley Erena Murray grew up Methodist and studied music and classics at university.  She became a Presbyterian […]

Arabella Katherine “Kate” Hankey was a banker’s daughter in London in the mid to late 1800’s.  A devout evangelical Anglican, Miss Hankey […]

This coming Sunday, October 30, is Reformation Sunday at Ascension, a day when we lift up and recognize the events that led […]

John L. Bell (b. 1949) is a widely published hymn text writer who is part of the Iona Community in Scotland.  A […]

Hymn text author Frances R. Havergal (1836-1879) shares this story about the inspiration for this hymn text:   “I went for a […]

David Bjorlin (Christ Still Rises) wrote the text of this week’s hymn of the day and offers this note. In much of […]

The gathering hymn this Sunday is an arrangement of two hymns from the “paperless music” tradition. The words for “To the Bath […]