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Anonymous

Person Name: Anon. Topics: Psalms and Canticles Composer of "[Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace]" in Voices of Praise In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

Ruth C. Duck

b. 1947 Person Name: Ruth Duck Topics: Service Music Psalms and Canticles; Service Music Psalms and Canticles Author of "Luke 1:68-79: Now Bless the God of Israel" in One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism

Timothy Dudley-Smith

b. 1926 Person Name: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Topics: Service Music Psalms and Canticles; Service Music Psalms and Canticles Author of "Psalm 98: Sing a New Song to the Lord" in One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church positions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman

Gregory Murray

1905 - 1992 Person Name: A. Gregory Murray Topics: Psalms and Canticles Composer (Antiphon II) of "[My shepherd is the Lord]" in Ecumenical Praise

Bernadette Farrell

b. 1957 Topics: Psalms and Canticles Author (refrain) of "Psalm 96: Today a Savior Is Born" in Breaking Bread (Vol. 39)

Daniel L. Schutte

b. 1947 Person Name: Dan Schutte Topics: Psalms and Canticles Author of "Psalm 63: My Soul Thirsts" in Breaking Bread (Vol. 39)

Michael Joncas

b. 1951 Topics: Psalms and Canticles Composer of "[Lord, you have the words of everlasting life]" in Breaking Bread (Vol. 39)

John L. Bell

b. 1949 Topics: Psalms and Canticles Author of "The Lord is my light" in In Every Corner Sing John Bell (b. 1949) was born in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, intending to be a music teacher when he felt the call to the ministry. But in frustration with his classes, he did volunteer work in a deprived neighborhood in London for a time and also served for two years as an associate pastor at the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam. After graduating he worked for five years as a youth pastor for the Church of Scotland, serving a large region that included about 500 churches. He then took a similar position with the Iona Community, and with his colleague Graham Maule, began to broaden the youth ministry to focus on renewal of the church’s worship. His approach soon turned to composing songs within the identifiable traditions of hymnody that began to address concerns missing from the current Scottish hymnal: "I discovered that seldom did our hymns represent the plight of poor people to God. There was nothing that dealt with unemployment, nothing that dealt with living in a multicultural society and feeling disenfranchised. There was nothing about child abuse…,that reflected concern for the developing world, nothing that helped see ourselves as brothers and sisters to those who are suffering from poverty or persecution." [from an interview in Reformed Worship (March 1993)] That concern not only led to writing many songs, but increasingly to introducing them internationally in many conferences, while also gathering songs from around the world. He was convener for the fourth edition of the Church of Scotland’s Church Hymnary (2005), a very different collection from the previous 1973 edition. His books, The Singing Thing and The Singing Thing Too, as well as the many collections of songs and worship resources produced by John Bell—some together with other members of the Iona Community’s “Wild Goose Resource Group,” —are available in North America from GIA Publications. Emily Brink