tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20013059.post9008194294184720767..comments2018-07-28T08:57:01.058-04:00Comments on Momo's Musings: CommunionMorrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04442776673039428910noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20013059.post-87728823353466785892007-03-26T09:40:00.000-04:002007-03-26T09:40:00.000-04:00Thanks for the comment, man. Usually all I get is...Thanks for the comment, man. Usually all I get is an empty echo from cyberspace.<BR/><BR/>If BH75 is the only representative Southern Baptist hymnal you have in your library ... PLEASE get another in your possession as soon as possible. Whether the 1991 hymnal, or the 1956 or the 1940 Broadman hymnal, I don't care. The 1975 hymnal is as dated as the clothing we were wearing at the time of its publication. It is, in my opinion, the weakest collection of worship song my tribe has ever published. <BR/><BR/>That being said, even the weakest hymnal has its strong points. There were a very few strong hymns that were in the 1975 hymnal that were omitted from the 1991 hymnal, but it has been so long since 1991 that I can't recall off the top of my head what they were. A couple of them weren't in the 1956 hymnal either, if memory serves.<BR/><BR/>Interesting note on Tom Allen: I researched him after I published my blog and discovered that he received an MDiv the same day I received my MCM from Southern Seminary and did his undergraduate work at Furman, just a few miles up the road from me. He's enough older than I am to have had an MCM under his belt before the MDiv. Unfortunately, I didn't know him while studying there.<BR/><BR/>There are several other strong texts concerning unity at the table in the 1991 hymnal. One of my favorites is Paul Richardson's "As He Gathered at His Table", though I like it better to BEACH SPRING as well. You have to double the stanzas and end up with 3 rather than 6, which is not as strong poesy, but it sings better than STUTTGART, which is the tune it's married to in TBH91. <BR/><BR/>Richardson was my voice prof and main mentor in seminary. He fixed a lot of the vocal problems I struggled with in undergrad study(and did the same for a couple of others after me with the same problems). He teaches at our alma mater now, and guess whose old studio was his last time I was there! It is Richardson's influence that haunts me to this day, forcing me to think theologically (as well as functionally) about everything I include (or am asked to include) in a worship service. He wasn't on the committee for TBH91, oddly enough ... so I don't know if STUTTGART was his choice or someone else's. It's still a great text, and one that has a lot to say about how we approach the table. I'll blog it soon.Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04442776673039428910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20013059.post-50622406461868375132007-03-24T01:07:00.000-04:002007-03-24T01:07:00.000-04:00Mo,I don't think it's any coincidence that the chu...Mo,<BR/><BR/>I don't think it's any coincidence that the churches in my own tradition that practice weekly Communion (and those numbers are increasing all the time) are also the churches in our tradition with a more ecumenical outlook. <BR/><BR/>I've got a long, long post working on this subject over on my blog. Give me a few days . . .<BR/><BR/>Love the hymn! Guess I'll have to buy the "new" Baptist Hymnal (the most recent one I have is the 1975 one). Yes, I know it's not really "new", but our denom's "new" hymnal is now 17 years old and everyone still calls it the "new" hymnal.<BR/><BR/>(A lot of people, myself included, still know the hymns by their numbers in the 1955 Hymnbook, which you may remember from Mountain Brook Pres.)JATBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08570676490610473755noreply@blogger.com