2009-01-20T10:01:11-08:00 1894-1972 5 image/jpeg Frank_Houghton.jpg 6122 Frank L. Houghton 2009-01-20T10:01:40-08:00 2009-01-20T10:04:11-08:00 1835-1917 6 image/jpeg Folliot_S._Pierpoint.jpg 20718 Folliott Sanford Pierpoint 2009-01-20T10:04:11-08:00 2009-01-20T10:05:51-08:00 1813-1843 7 image/jpeg Robert_Murray_McCheyne2.jpg 2994 Robert Murray McCheynne 2009-01-20T10:05:51-08:00 2009-01-20T10:18:45-08:00 1650-1680. Died of tuberculosis. 8 image/jpeg Joachim_Neander.jpg 25775 Joachim Neander 2009-01-20T10:18:45-08:00 2009-01-20T10:20:08-08:00 1827-1878. 9 image/jpeg Catherine_Winkworth.jpg 47835 Catherine Winkworth 2009-01-20T10:20:08-08:00 2009-01-20T10:22:41-08:00 1841-1919. 10 image/png blank.png 662 Arthur Campbell Aigner 2009-01-21T05:36:49-08:00 2009-01-20T10:32:54-08:00 1820-1915. 11 image/jpeg Fanny_Jane_Crosby.jpg 22197 Fanny J. Crosby 2009-01-20T10:32:54-08:00 2009-01-20T10:52:13-08:00 1618-1677 13 image/jpeg Album_Cover.jpg 231443 Johann Franck 2009-01-20T10:52:13-08:00 2009-01-20T11:08:00-08:00 1586-1649. 14 image/jpeg Martin_Rinkart.jpg 29404 Martin Rinkart 2009-01-20T11:08:00-08:00 2009-01-20T11:11:03-08:00 1844-1889. 15 image/jpeg Gerard_Manley_Hopkins.jpg 12890 Gerard Manley Hopkins 2009-01-20T11:11:03-08:00 2009-01-20T11:13:22-08:00 1731–1800. 16 image/jpeg William_Cowper.jpg 1557 William Cowper 2009-01-20T11:13:22-08:00 2009-01-21T13:29:14-08:00 1712-1768. 18 Joseph Hart 2009-01-21T13:29:14-08:00 2009-03-02T14:28:13-08:00 1808-1889 19 Horatius Bonar 2009-03-02T14:28:13-08:00 2009-03-02T14:34:06-08:00 1818-1895. Cecil wrote over 400 hymns, was a hit with the Church of Ireland, founded a school for the deaf with her sister, and set up "THE GIRLS' FRIENDLY SOCIETY" in Londenderry, Northern Ireland. Whatever happened to people doing both BRAIN and ACTION? 20 image/jpeg Cecil_Alexander.jpg 22803 Cecil F. Alexander 2009-03-02T20:10:00-08:00 2009-03-02T14:36:56-08:00 1718-1755 21 John Cennick 2009-03-02T14:36:56-08:00 2009-03-02T14:39:49-08:00 1842-1906 22 George Matheson 2009-03-02T14:39:49-08:00 2009-03-02T14:46:08-08:00 1740-1778 23 Augustus Toplady 2009-03-02T14:46:08-08:00 2009-03-02T14:53:53-08:00 24 Alexander Means 2009-03-02T14:53:53-08:00 2009-03-02T15:08:43-08:00 1707-1788 25 image/jpeg Charles_Wesley.jpg 30144 Charles Wesley 2009-03-02T15:08:43-08:00 2009-03-02T16:09:55-08:00 1838-1876 26 Philip P. Bliss 2009-03-02T16:12:29-08:00 2009-03-02T16:15:51-08:00 1611-1684 27 image/jpeg Johannes_Olearius.jpg 14865 Johannes Gottfried Olearius 2009-03-02T16:15:51-08:00 2009-03-02T16:20:09-08:00 28 Unknown Author 2009-03-02T16:20:09-08:00 2009-07-03T01:20:32-07:00 1839-1896 29 Thomas Benson Pollock 2009-07-03T01:20:32-07:00 2009-10-08T06:08:57-07:00 1735-1790 His mum sent him to London when he was 14 to be a hair dresser. But he just wanted to read. Became a Christian at 17, then later became a preacher in Cambridge, England. 30 image/jpeg Robert_Robinson.jpg 25275 Robert Robinson 2009-10-08T06:10:19-07:00 2009-11-02T03:36:58-08:00 31 image/jpeg Charlotte_Elliott.jpg 11220 Charlotte Elliot 2009-11-02T03:36:58-08:00 2009-11-10T03:55:39-08:00 I grew up singing hymns in my father’s small, Reformed Congregational church. My mother was the church accompanist. She carried a knowledge of and a sensitivity towards the hymns we sang in church, which in part stemmed from her own solo piano arrangements of the same hymns. Most of my indoor childhood life was spent around the piano(s) in our living room. My earliest memories are of being under the piano, where I would study the details of the massive soundboard, trying to catch the patterns of the sustain pedal while my mum worked out her hymn arrangements. When I got a bit older I would sit on the piano bench with my mum, while my family sang an after dinner hymn. I was literally surrounded by hymns, and it's almost like I didn't really have a choice in the matter—that I was bound to do something with these old songs at some point. Over the years I’ve realised that the extremely frustrating thing with sappy Contemporary Christian Music culture or stately hymns culture, is that it subconsciously coerces people into thinking Christianity has a certain personality. That if you aren’t intellectual (hymns) or emotional (choruses) in your faith then you’re just not being godly and you need to get it together. It’s something that wouldn’t ever be vocalised by church leaders, but it’s a very subtly suffocating part of church culture. In fact, it’s part of every culture. It’s the re-ordering of one’s identity from firstly being in Christ to firstly being in America (or, in Calvinism, the black church, suburbia or whatever). When I began spending significant amounts of time with goofy and nerdy and brilliant and dumb and Australian and Arab and old and young Christians, I just couldn’t accept the current two-party stately/sappy church music system anymore. I had to do something. Fortunately, God’s grace spared me from rejecting church music wholesale and allowed me, in a very challenging yet supportive community, to work out my ideas—my goal of more honestly and more personally responding to the texts I grew up with. This is what I’m trying to do with JG HYMNS. 32 image/jpeg JG3.jpg 62668 JG 2009-11-10T03:57:52-08:00 2009-11-17T01:36:40-08:00 I don't know anything about this lady, but sometime during the 1880s she wrote the first two verses of Father, Thank You For The Night which somehow found its way into one of my hymnals. 33 Rebecca J. West­on 2009-11-17T01:37:08-08:00 2010-01-26T02:55:08-08:00 34 image/jpeg Samuel_J_Stone.jpg 15660 Samuel J Stone 2010-01-26T02:55:08-08:00 2010-01-27T05:38:23-08:00 35 image/jpeg Isaac_Watts.jpg 27634 Isaac Watts 2010-01-27T05:38:23-08:00