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Source and Sovereign, Rock and Cloud

Author: Thomas H. Troeger

Thomas Troeger (b. 1945), professor of Christian communication at Yale Divinity school, is a well known preacher, poet, and musician. He is a fellow of Silliman College, holds a B.A. from Yale University; B.D. Colgate Rochester Divinity School; S.T. D. Dickinson College, and was awarded an honorary D.D. grom Virginia Theological Seminary. He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1970 and the Episcopal Church in 1999, and remains dually aligned with both traditions. Troerger has 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 the last three years he has hosted the Season… Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line: Source and Sovereign, Rock and Cloud
Author: Thomas H. Troeger (1987)
Meter: 7.7.7.7 with refrain
Language: English
Refrain First Line: May the church at prayer recall
Copyright: © 1987 Oxford University Press.
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Tune

ABERYSTWYTH (Parry)

Joseph Parry (b. Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, Wales, 1841; d. Penarth, Glamorganshire, 1903) was born into a poor but musical family. Although he showed musical gifts at an early age, he was sent to work in the puddling furnaces of a steel mill at the age of nine. His family immigrated to a Welsh…

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BIRINUS


ARFON (Major)

ARFON is originally a six-phrase Welsh folk tune in minor tonality entitled 'Tros y Garreg." Named for a district on the mainland of northern Wales opposite Mon and Anglesey, the tune was published in Edward Jones's Relicks of the Welsh Bards (1784). In the later nineteenth century ARFON was associa…

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Timeline

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Instances

Instances (1 - 8 of 8)

Chalice Hymnal #12

Chalice Hymnal #12

Church Hymnary (4th ed.) #133

Church Hymnary (4th ed.) #133

Community of Christ Sings #4

Community of Christ Sings #4

Gather (3rd ed.) #667

Gather (3rd ed.) #667

Gather Comprehensive, Second Edition #563

Gather Comprehensive, Second Edition #563
Text InfoAudio

Glory to God #11

Glory to God #11

Hymns of Glory, Songs of Praise #133

Hymns of Glory, Songs of Praise #133
Audio

The United Methodist Hymnal #113

The United Methodist Hymnal #113
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