Sentences with phrase «hymn writers for»

He points to the stark honesty of many hymn writers for why these songs resonate with a «generation (that) longs for authenticity.»

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It remains for new poet - songsters, new hymn - writers, or perhaps even for Bono or Dylan themselves, to provide the music for such a quest.

Society president David Miller, dean of Wittenberg University's school of music, offered a progress report: the 55 - year - old hymn society, with 2,000 members — including clergy, church musicians, poets and hymn writers — was reorganized last year, has recently taken a spurt of growth and seems to have potential for further growth (one place the society is recruiting is among the ranks of the American Guild of Organists» 24,000 members).

Writers would describe it in terms of an imprisonment; Newman's hymn says «in prison for the debt unpaid».

Certainly I knew nothing then of the vast grounds for the hymn - writer's protest, but later in the decade of the thirties I joined, incipiently at the level of a graduate student, the ranks of the same critics and with some real enthusiasm learned and cultivated the techniques of «tearing apart» the biblical literature.

Hymn writers Keith and Kristyn Getty have performed for US Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Second... More

Gilead is the long - hoped - for second novel by one of our finest writers, a hymn of praise and lamentation to the God - haunted existence that Reverend Ames loves passionately, and from which he will soon part.