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Bob Hurd

b. 1950 Scripture: John 13:27 Composer of "[If we have died with him]" in Singing the New Testament

Adam M. L. Tice

b. 1979 Scripture: John 13 Author of "The Church of Christ Cannot Be Bound" in Glory to God

John W. Peterson

1921 - 2006 Scripture: John 13:23 Author of "Near to Thy Heart" in Praise! Our Songs and Hymns

1938 - 2009 Scripture: John 13:32-35 Author of "Somos uno en espíritu" in Celebremos Su Gloria Peter Scholtes (1938–2009) Peter was born in Evanston, Illinois and grew up in Oak Park, where he attended Ascension School and Fenwick High School before studying at Quigley and St. Mary of the Lake-Mundelein seminaries. He earned his Masters in Adult Education and Organization Development at Boston University. Peter wrote the hymn "They'll Know We Are Christians by Our Love" while he was a parish priest at St. Brendan's on the South Side of Chicago in the 1960s. At the time, he was leading a youth choir out of the church basement and was looking for an appropriate song for a series of ecumenical, interracial events. When he couldn't find such a song, he wrote the now-famous hymn in a single day. His experiences at St. Brendan's, and in the Chicago Civil Rights movement, influenced him for the rest of his life. After working in the public sector in Lynn, Massachusetts and Madison, Wisconsin, Peter became a consultant with Joiner Associates in the 1980s, traveling the globe to help businesses engage employees' talents more fully, humanely, and effectively. He co-authored The Team Handbook, which was named one of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time (in the book of that title). After starting Scholtes Seminars and Consulting, he wrote the classic The Leader's Handbook in 1998, which made the definitive case against performance appraisal—a practice he argued was demoralizing and wrong. --www.lorenz.com/composers

Federico J. Pagura

1923 - 2016 Scripture: John 13:32-35 Translator of "Somos uno en espíritu" in Celebremos Su Gloria Federico José Pagura was an Argentine Methodist bishop and author and translator of hymns. Leland Bryant Ross

Margaret R. Tucker

b. 1936 Scripture: John 13, 14 Composer of "MY NEIGHBOR" in Glory to God

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

1809 - 1847 Person Name: F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, 1809-1847 Scripture: John 13:21-30 Composer of "FELIX" in Common Praise Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (b. Hamburg, Germany, 1809; d. Leipzig, Germany, 1847) was the son of banker Abraham Mendelssohn and the grandson of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. His Jewish family became Christian and took the Bartholdy name (name of the estate of Mendelssohn's uncle) when baptized into the Lutheran church. The children all received an excellent musical education. Mendelssohn had his first public performance at the age of nine and by the age of sixteen had written several symphonies. Profoundly influenced by J. S. Bach's music, he conducted a performance of the St. Matthew Passion in 1829 (at age 20!) – the first performance since Bach's death, thus reintroducing Bach to the world. Mendelssohn organized the Domchor in Berlin and founded the Leipzig Conservatory of Music in 1843. Traveling widely, he not only became familiar with various styles of music but also became well known himself in countries other than Germany, especially in England. He left a rich treasury of music: organ and piano works, overtures and incidental music, oratorios (including St. Paul or Elijah and choral works, and symphonies. He harmonized a number of hymn tunes himself, but hymnbook editors also arranged some of his other tunes into hymn tunes. Bert Polman

Sydney H. Nicholson

1875 - 1947 Person Name: S. H. Nicholson, 1875-1947 Scripture: John 13:21-30 Arranger of "FELIX" in Common Praise Sydney H. Nicholson, (b. St. Marylebone, London, England, 1875; d. Ashford, Kent, England, 1947) was an organist and church music educator who greatly influenced English hymnody. Educated at Oxford's New College, the Royal College of Music in London, and in Frankfurt, Germany, he became organist at several famous cathedrals, including Westminster Abbey (1919-1928). Nicholson founded and administered the School of English Church Music at Chislehurst in 1927; this important institution, with branches throughout the English-speaking world, was renamed the Royal School of Church Music in 1945. Located in Canterbury after World War II, its headquarters were moved to Addington Palace, Croydon, in 1954. Nicholson was music adviser for the 1916 Supplement of Hymns Ancient and Modern and prepared the way for its 1950 edition. He wrote Church Music: a Practical Handbook (1920) and Quires and Places Where They Sing (1932) and composed operettas, anthems, and hymn tunes. In 1938 he was knighted for his contributions to church music. Bert Polman

Paul Akers Richardson

b. 1951 Person Name: Paul A. Richardson Scripture: John 13:1-30 Author of "As He Gathered at His Table" in Lift Up Your Hearts Dr. Richardson's principal area of research and writing is hymnology (congregational song). Author of Singing Baptists: Studies in Baptist Hymnody in America, with Harry Eskew and David W. Music (Church Street Press, 1994); and "I Will Sing the Wondrous Story": A History of Baptist Hymnody in America, with David W. Music (Mercer University Press, 2008). Bachelor of Music (voice performance and church music), Mars Hill College; Master of Church Music (voice performance), Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; Doctor of Musical Arts (church music: voice performance and musicology), Southern Baptist Theological Seminary postdoctoral studies, Colgate-Rochester Divinity School/ Bexley Hall/Crozer Theological Seminary; Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester; Regents Park College, University of Oxford. --See Samford University School of the Arts bio, 03 July 2014.

Henry J. Gauntlett

1805 - 1876 Scripture: John 13:1-30 Adapter of "STUTTGART" in Lift Up Your Hearts Henry J. Gauntlett (b. Wellington, Shropshire, July 9, 1805; d. London, England, February 21, 1876) When he was nine years old, Henry John Gauntlett (b. Wellington, Shropshire, England, 1805; d. Kensington, London, England, 1876) became organist at his father's church in Olney, Buckinghamshire. At his father's insistence he studied law, practicing it until 1844, after which he chose to devote the rest of his life to music. He was an organist in various churches in the London area and became an important figure in the history of British pipe organs. A designer of organs for William Hill's company, Gauntlett extended the organ pedal range and in 1851 took out a patent on electric action for organs. Felix Mendelssohn chose him to play the organ part at the first performance of Elijah in Birmingham, England, in 1846. Gauntlett is said to have composed some ten thousand hymn tunes, most of which have been forgotten. Also a supporter of the use of plainchant in the church, Gauntlett published the Gregorian Hymnal of Matins and Evensong (1844). Bert Polman