[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:2, topic:753178”]
I’m Presbyterian and collect hymnals. My tastes are probably not yours.
“My Song Is Love Unknown”
“Immortal, Invisible”
“Savior, Like A Shepherd Lead Us”
“Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?”[/QUOTE]
My favorite religious songs are also hymns. I do like “Immortal, Invisible” but if I had to pick ONLY ONE, I’d probably go for “A Mighty Fortress is Our God” What can I say? I’m Episcopalian now, but I was raised Lutheran. Of the four different wordings/translations of that hymn, I prefer the one with the first verse that ends *“Let goods and kindred go/This mortal life also/The body they may kill/God’s truth abideth still/And he shall win the battle.” * The version I was raised on may have been more literal but by today’s standards it is too sexist for my current tastes. *And take they our life/Goods, honor child or wife/Let these all be gone/They yet have nothing won/The kindgom’s ours forever." Even as a little girl that puzzled me, I knew I’d never have a wife.
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While looking for certain hymns online I came on the work of Neil Barham. As many hymn writers have done he has taken familiar music and put new words to it. http://cyberhymnal.org/bio/b/a/r/barham_n.htm I like a lot of his work, particularly the hymn set to the Jupiter movement from Gustav Holst’s “The Planets”