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Anabel S. Miller

Scripture: Matthew 26:39 Author of "Christ at Table There with Friends" in The New Century Hymnal

Carol J. Birkland

b. 1945 Person Name: Carol Birkland Scripture: Matthew 26:26-28 Author of "Great Work Has God Begun in You" in The New Century Hymnal

b. 1925 Person Name: Paul Wigmore, 1925- Scripture: Matthew 27:45-66, 28:1-10 Author of "I Found Him Cradled" in Common Praise (1998) Born 1925, London. Schools in Harrow, Bushey Heath and Barnstaple (N Devon). Many occupations between the ages of 14 and 42: apprentice mechanical engineer, shop assistant, junior clerk, photo lab trainee, National Service RAF photographer in India, Burma and UK, Kodak medical radiographer and haematology lab technician, then technical author. Publications and PR manager with air/sea lifesaving equipment manufacturer. PRO for the Christian Medical College and Brown Memorial Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab. Freelance writer, graphic designer and photographer in Cambridge. Advertising editor and art director with Kodak UK from 1967 to early retirement in 1985. Wrote first verse at age ten in Port Isaac, Cornwall, getting as far as: Clouds race like tattered rags across Port Isaac Bay, ... and then stopping. During brief acquaintance with Penelope and John Betjeman from August 1982 until John's death in July, 1984, encouraged by the poet to keep writing verse. Two collections of light verse published in 1988 and 1990. First attempt at a hymn text written ('ÄòMay we, O Holy Spirit, bear your fruit'Äô) at the request of Jubilate Hymns Limited in compilation of Hymns for Today's Church. Something approaching 100 hymn texts now published, plus a couple of cantatas and one opera. The Jubilate Group

William B. Petricko

Scripture: Matthew 26:36-45 Author of "Alone in Gethsemane" in Celebrating Grace Hymnal

David A. Hoekema

b. 1950 Scripture: Matthew 26:26-29 Author of "Litany of Praise: Our Covenanting God" in Lift Up Your Hearts David A. Hoekema (b. Paterson, NJ, 1950) is currently a professor of philosophy at his alma mater, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. He received a Ph.D. from Princeton University, taught philosophy at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota (1977-1984), and was executive director of the American Philosophical Association while teaching philosophy at the University of Delaware (1984-1993). In addition to many journal articles on philosophical issues, he has published Rights and Wrongs: Coercion, Punishment and the State (1986). Bert Polman