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Sep 04, 2025

Thank You to Our 2024 Donors

Because of your generosity, The Hymn Society continues to enliven congregational song and nurture the next generation of hymn leaders and creators. The list below includes the names of all those who made donations totaling $25 or more during 2024. In 2024, your gifts directly supported twelve Lovelace scholarships, the Latinx Leadership Connection Program, numerous […]

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Sep 04, 2025

Hymn Search Winners: “God the Creator”

Congratulations to winners of The Hymn Society’s search for a text on God the Creator. First place was awarded to Carol Meier’s text “Creating Word” and second place to Chris Shelton’s hymn “With water, wind, and whisper you called the world to be.”  Both hymns were sung enthusiastically during our recent Annual Conference in Detroit […]

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Our Latest Blogs

Oct 06, 2025

THANKFULNESS – Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost—Proper 23, Year C; Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C (RC)

October 12, 2025 Revised Common Lectionary Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7 or 2 Kings 5:1-3, 7-15c Psalm 66:1-12 or Psalm 111 2 Timothy 2:8-15 Luke 17:11-19 Lectionary for Mass (RC) 2 Kings 5:14-17 Psalm 98:1, 2-3, 3-4 (see 2b) 2 Timothy 2:8-13 Luke 17:11-19 Day by day, week by week, my friend Kate is losing her memory. […]

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Sep 29, 2025

INCREASE OUR FAITH – Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost—Proper 22, Year C; Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C (RC)

October 5, 2025 Revised Common Lectionary Lamentations 1:1-6 or Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4 Lamentations 3:19-26 or Psalm 137 or Psalm 37:1-9 2 Timothy 1:1-14 Luke 17:5-10 Lectionary for Mass (RC) Habakkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4 Psalm 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9 (8) 2 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14 Luke 17:5-10 Newscasts are sometimes hard to hear. There are so many unsettling reports […]

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