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A Centennial Celebration
2021 marks a critically important year in the history of Churches of Christ. 2021 marks 100 years since Elmer Leon (“E.L.”) Jorgenson of Louisville, KY published the very first edition of Great Songs of the Church. To say that this hymnal has had a monumental influence on the hymnody, the singing, and the worship practices…
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Jesus Loves…YOU
It will not surprise regular readers of this irregular blog to hear me write “what we sing forms who we are.” It’s been that way as long as there have been humans singing…and heck, even animals, and nature, and heaven sing…so I guess what those created things sing forms them too. I think about almost…
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I DON’T KNOW…
I DON’T KNOW.We don’t like these words. We don’t like saying these words. We don’t like not knowing. But these three words fill my mind as I try to process this last week’s events, the entirety of the COVID-19 virus crisis… As a 38 year old, privileged white male who has NEVER wanted for anything…who…
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“Let Party Names No More…”
This hymn by Benjamin Beddome, “Let Party Names No More…” was written around 1769. Rice Haggard was among the first to include it in his Christian Hymns hymnal of 1815, one of the earliest from the Stone-Campbell-Scott, etc., Restoration Movement.It’s easy to see why it isn’t in hymnals today…don’t you think? Wanna sing it at…
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Singing, COVID-19, and Church…
So, some stream of consciousness thoughts that have been percolating for some time now. As the great theologian Hedley Lamarr once said: “My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening thru a cosmic vapor of invention.” I’ve been thinking, almost constantly now for several weeks, about the implications of COVID…
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Lots of Facebooking, Streaming, Hymnstagramming, and YouTubing
Hi Friends & Readers. Your not-so-faithful hymnist, D.J. Bulls here. Well, with COVID-19 and quarantining, we’ve been doing a lot of digital work lately. I’ve been streaming a BUNCH on my Facebook page as well as our Church Facebook page (facebook.com/gilmercofctx). I’ve also updated my YouTube Channel. You can also jump over to INSTAGRAM and…
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