This hymn is a vigorous meditation on Matthew 11.2-11. ‘We have been expecting the Messiah’, John the Baptist said. Addressing Jesus, he asked: ‘Are you he? (We have reason to doubt it.)’ The heart of the story, and of the Read More …
When Günter Schlechter, a friend who conducts a choir in Schleswig, asked me for a hymn for St Martin’s Day 2018, I was moved, not least because I had been wondering how Germans would keep the centenary of the end Read More …
In 2018 there was a search for a hymn to be sung at the national commemoration of the centenary of the end of the 1914-18 war. This was my submission. Judge of all peoples
A PRAYER
* This was my second attempt at a hymn to respond to the drowning of Aylan Kurdi
* I wrote this for Music Sunday 2015
This song was adapted for Andrew Douglas-Forbes and Konstantin Lapshin from a hymn I was invited to write on the theme ‘Make Way’. Only after the hymn was sung at the service in Winchester Cathedral for which it was composed Read More …