Poetry
“You Raise Me Up” (Do they sing this at your church?)
When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary; When troubles come and my heart burdened be; Then, I am still and wait here in the silence, Until you come and sit awhile with me. You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains; You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas; [...]
Great God your love has called us here (Brian Wren)
A great modern hymn, unfortunately not so well-known: Great God your love has called us here as we, by love, for love were made. Your living likeness still we bear though marred, dishonoured, disobeyed. ~~ We come, with all our heart and mind, your call to hear, your love to find. We come with self-inflicted [...]
Amazing Grace by Wintley Phipps
At Carnegie Hall, gospel singer Wintley Phipps delivers perhaps the most powerful rendition of Amazing Grace ever recorded. * He says, “A lot of people don’t realize that just about all Negro spirituals are written on the black notes of the piano. * “Probably the most famous on this slave scale was written by John Newton, who [...]
An Australian Hymn To The Tune Of Waltzing Matilda
An Australian Hymn To The Tune* Of Waltzing Matilda (Waltzing Matilda is Australian slang for journeying on foot with one’s bundle of personal belongings (a matilda) slung over the shoulder.) Once a ghostly swagman camped by our billabongs under the shade of our old gum trees. And he sang as he watched and [...]
By the Babe Unborn
(Chesterton’s gratitude for the gift of existence): “By the Babe Unborn” by G.K. Chesterton If trees were tall and grasses short, As in some crazy tale, If here and there a sea were blue Beyond the breaking pale, If a fixed fire hung in the air To warm me one day through, If deep [...]
SILENCE
Silence is golden. That’s what he said, Enabling people to listen and think. To listen to others or listen to God, To think about life and to ponder in peace. But this is when silence is there by request, Not forced upon you in anger or fear. Angry silence. Words left unsaid. The pain of [...]
Rescue the Humanities
By Harry T. Cook 11/19/10 When angst over the spiraling costs of higher education gets the better of college and university administrations, the humanities frequently end up taking the hindmost. Deans and faculties under pressure to recruit and keep students ponder such otherwise tabooed questions in academe as: “Who needs to know about ‘Moby Dick’ [...]
GREATEST HYMN EVER WRITTEN?
GREATEST HYMN EVER WRITTEN? ie. which produces awe/goosebumps/real adoration for you? Mine: Hebrew – Isaiah 40, Psalm 23 Greek – Philippians 2:4-11 English – When I Survey, Jesus Joy of Loving Hearts Modern (last 50 years)? Pause… have to think about that… Be Exalted O God ? Yours? (I posted this on to Facebook, 11/10/2010: [...]
When tragedy strikes? Write a hymn
This hymn was written in 1873 after two major traumas in Horatio Spafford’s life. The first was the great Chica go Fire of October 1871, which ruined him financially (he had been a wealthy business man). Shortly after, while crossing the Atlantic, all four of Spafford’s daughters died in a collision with another ship. Spafford’s [...]
THE IMPACT OF T.S. ELIOT’S CHRISTIANITY ON HIS POETRY
By Barry Spurr ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 16 AUG 2010 ELIOT’S CHRISTIAN POETRY NEVER IMAGINES THAT RELIGIOUS BELIEF MAKES LIFE, WITH ALL ITS DEMONS, EASIER. By the time that T.S. Eliot, aged 39, was baptised and confirmed in the Church of England in 1927, his reputation as the leading Modernist poet had been secured [...]
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