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How Beautiful, Our Spacious Skies
Author: Miriam Therese Winter; Katharine Lee Bates Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 557 hymnals First Line: How beautiful our spacious skies Lyrics: 2 Indigenous and immigrant, our daughters ... Topics: Christian unity; Citizenship; Freedom and Liberation National; Peace World; Repentance Used With Tune: MATERNA
How Beautiful, Our Spacious Skies
ChrIst Has Broken Down the Wall
Author: Mark A. Miller Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Immigration and Refugees Scripture: Romans 8:32-34 Used With Tune: BROKEN WALLS
ChrIst Has Broken Down the Wall
Helpless and Hungry
Author: Scott Soper Meter: 5.4.8.5.8.5 with refrain Appears in 5 hymnals Topics: Immigration and Refugees Scripture: Isaiah 35:3-4 Used With Tune: CHILD OF THE POOR
Helpless and Hungry
BROKEN WALLS
Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Mark A. Miller Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 11212 33354 31224 Used With Text: ChrIst Has Broken Down the Wall
BROKEN WALLS
KING’S WESTON
Meter: 6.5.6.5 D Appears in 111 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams Tune Sources: Enlarged Songs of Praise; arr. The Hymnbook 1955 Tune Key: e minor Incipit: 12321 71234 51345 Used With Text: Jesus Entered Egypt
KING’S WESTON
Beauty for Brokenness
Author: Graham Kendrick Hymnal: Voices Together #712 (2020) Meter: Irregular Refrain First Line: God of the poor, friend of the weak Topics: Immigration and Refugees; Immigration and Refugees Scripture: Proverbs 14:31 Tune Title: GOD OF THE POOR
Beauty for Brokenness
Here to the House of God We Come
Author: Shirley Erena Murray Hymnal: Voices Together #27 (2020) Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Lyrics: 1 Here to the house of God we come, home of the people of the Way, here to give thanks for all we have, naming our needs for ev’ry day, we who have roof and rent and bread, sure of a place to rest our head. 2 There is a knocking at our door, sound of the ... Topics: Immigration and Refugees Scripture: Matthew 8:18-22 Tune Title: KHAO I DANG
Here to the House of God We Come
ChrIst Has Broken Down the Wall
Author: Mark A. Miller Hymnal: Voices Together #174 (2020) Meter: 7.7.7.7 Topics: Immigration and Refugees Scripture: Romans 8:32-34 Tune Title: BROKEN WALLS
ChrIst Has Broken Down the Wall
Miriam Therese Winter
b. 1938 Author (St. 2-4) of "How Beautiful, Our Spacious Skies" in The New Century Hymnal
Miriam Therese Winter
John L. Bell
b. 1949 Author of "If the War Goes On" in Voices Together John Bell (b. 1949) was born in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, intending to be a music teacher when he felt the call to the ministry. But in frustration with his classes, he did volunteer work in a deprived neighborhood in London for a time and also served for two years as an associate pastor at the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam. After graduating he worked for five years as a youth pastor for the Church of Scotland, serving a large region that included about 500 churches. He then took a similar position with the Iona Community, and with his colleague Graham Maule, began to broaden the youth ministry to focus on renewal of the church’s worship. His approach soon turned to composing songs within the identifiable traditions of hymnody that began to address concerns missing from the current Scottish hymnal:
"I discovered that seldom did our hymns represent the plight of poor people to God. There was nothing that dealt with unemployment, nothing that dealt with living in a multicultural society and feeling disenfranchised. There was nothing about child abuse…,that reflected concern for the developing world, nothing that helped see ourselves as brothers and sisters to those who are suffering from poverty or persecution." [from an interview in Reformed Worship (March 1993)]
That concern not only led to writing many songs, but increasingly to introducing them internationally in many conferences, while also gathering songs from around the world. He was convener for the fourth edition of the Church of Scotland’s Church Hymnary (2005), a very different collection from the previous 1973 edition. His books, The Singing Thing and The Singing Thing Too, as well as the many collections of songs and worship resources produced by John Bell—some together with other members of the Iona Community’s “Wild Goose Resource Group,” —are available in North America from GIA Publications.
Emily Brink
John L. Bell
