You will not be the same after you experience this extraordinary tour of Wales, Scotland and England, learning about the history of our wonderful heritage of English hymns. Sharon and I absolutely cherished this experience.

— Keith Lancaster

the Bulls Pen


  • Fanny Crosby “Day”

    Today marks the 109th anniversary of the passing of one of America’s greatest composers/hymnists. She exited this earth and was, after a near-lifetime of blindness because of a poor choice by her physician to treat a simple element with a… Continue reading

  • Law of Love…Gospel of Peace

    Here’s another piece I wrote a couple of years ago on a lyric that oft gets “sung over” without allowing the power to sink in. Think about it when you sing “O Holy Night” this year! “Law of Love and… Continue reading

  • Come, Emmanuel (#2) [2022]

      As the anticipation, the “Watching and waiting, looking above” continues, we move (backward) to the first verse of “O Come, O Come Emmanuel.”  Perhaps, this is the most poignant of this hymns litany of verses, with its begging and… Continue reading