Hymnody

As luck or providence would have it, we’ve been a part of several churches that take hymnody very seriously. Currently we are members of a church that reworks older hymns “RUF-style” (I suppose) and I have learned the text of several of Gadsby’s wonderful hymns this year. Back in Austin, we went to a church that had a magnificent choir and sang more traditional church music, but they introduced many new rich older hymns to me, particularly ones related to the church calendar, that I have stored up like treasures. They also reworked hymns to new tunes, though theirs were still in a traditional vein. This week the girls were begging for “sweet songs” in the car and I was able to pause the ipod (dj-ing during “take back the highways” week is not encouraged) and sing Watts and Aquinas and Noel (to RVW “King’s Weston.”) I was glad to share these old songs with young listening ears and hope that they will love the songs of the church as well.