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Learn MoreAs we prepare to celebrate The Hymn Society’s centennial during 2022, we are sponsoring a webinar series for 2021 – 2022 entitled, “The World Sings,” featuring expert voices on congregational singing around the globe.
Learn MoreAs part of The Hymn Society’s centennial celebration (1922 – 2022), and in preparation for our centennial conference in July 2022, we are planning a monthly online interview series, “100 Years of Song.” We will feature nine Hymn Society leaders speaking about their own stories and interest in congregational song, their experience in and service to The Hymn Society, the contributions of our organization and our members to singing communities, and issues that are facing us today.
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Hymn Society members will know that THS life member Amanda Husberg passed away on February 15, 2021. On Sunday, November 7, 2021, Amanda’s church, St. John the Evangelist Lutheran Church in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, held a memorial service for her. The theme of the service was “A Feast Prepared,” taken from the title of one of […]
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The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada is conducting a competition for a theologically rich hymn or song text for congregational singing that highlights the role of the organ in accompanying, leading, empowering, and enlivening congregational song. The hymn should be ecumenical in nature. This search is for a text, whether written for […]
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December 5, 2021 Revised Common Lectionary Baruch 5:1-9 or Malachi 3:1-4 Luke 1:68-79 Philippians 1:3-11 Luke 3:1-6 Lectionary for Mass (RC) Baruch 5:1-9 Psalm 126:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 6 (3) Philippians 1:4-6, 8-11 Luke 3:1-6 Is real change possible? This question was surely on the minds of delegates to the recent climate summit in Glasgow as […]
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November 28, 2021 Revised Common Lectionary Jeremiah 33:14-16 Psalm 25:1-10 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13 Luke 21:25-36 Lectionary for Mass (RC) Jeremiah 33:14-16 Psalm 25:4-5, 8-9, 10, 14 (1b) 1 Thessalonians 3:23 – 4:2 Luke 21:25-28, 34-36 Sometimes encouraging words are hard to hear. When you’ve just received a cancer diagnosis, your spouse has asked for […]
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