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Edgar Pettman

1886 - 1943 Person Name: C. Edgar Pettman Matching Instances: 4 Arranger of "NORMANDY" in Voices United

D. T. Niles

1908 - 1970 Person Name: Daniel Thambyrajah Niles (1908-1970) Matching Instances: 1 Author of "The great love of God is revealed in the Son" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)

Alison M. Robertson

b. 1940 Person Name: Alison M. Robertson (b. 1940) Matching Instances: 1 Author of "While Mary was watching, they hung Jesus high" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)

Guthrie Foote

Person Name: Guthrie Foote (1897-1972) Matching Instances: 1 Harmonizer of "NORMANDY" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)

1929 - 2009 Matching Instances: 1 Author of "We Meet You, O Christ" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Fred Kaan Hymn writer. His hymns include both original work and translations. He sought to address issues of peace and justice. He was born in Haarlem in the Netherlands in July 1929. He was baptised in St Bavo Cathedral but his family did not attend church regularly. He lived through the Nazi occupation, saw three of his grandparents die of starvation, and witnessed his parents deep involvement in the resistance movement. They took in a number of refugees. He became a pacifist and began attending church in his teens. Having become interested in British Congregationalism (later to become the United Reformed Church) through a friendship, he was attended Western College in Bristol. He was ordained in 1955 at the Windsor Road Congregational Church in Barry, Glamorgan. In 1963 he was called to be minister of the Pilgrim Church in Plymouth. It was in this congregation that he began to write hymns. The first edition of Pilgrim Praise was published in 1968, going into second and third editions in 1972 and 1975. He continued writing many more hymns throughout his life. Dianne Shapiro, from obituary written by Keith Forecast in Independent (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/fred-kaan-minister-and-celebrated-hymn-writer-1809481.html)

Thomas H. Troeger

1945 - 2022 Matching Instances: 1 Author of "God Made from One Blood" in Voices United Thomas Troeger (1945-2022), professor of Christian communication at Yale Divinity school, was a well known preacher, poet, and musician. He was a fellow of Silliman College, held a B.A. from Yale University; B.D. Colgate Rochester Divinity School; S.T. D. Dickinson College, and was awarded an honorary D.D. from Virginia Theological Seminary. He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1970 and the Episcopal Church in 1999, and remained dually aligned with both traditions. Troerger led conferences and lectures in worship and preaching throughout North America, as well as in Denmark, Holland, Australia, Japan, and Africa. He served as national chaplain to the American Guild of Organists, and for at least three years he hosted the Season of Worship broadcast for Cokesbury. He was president of the Academy of Homiletics as well as Societas Homiletica. He had, as of 2009, written 22 books in the areas of preaching, poetry, hymnody, and worship. Many of his hymn texts are found in New Hymns for the Lectionary (Oxford, 1992), and God, You Made All Things for Singing (Oxford, 2009). Laura de Jong