Category: Erotic love
A Prayer
A PRAYER
God, un-composed Composer, Thou
* I wrote this for Music Sunday 2015
O Love, O Love, O fearless Love
* This hymn-song was composed to be part of a Lenten sermon for St Anne’s Calmore, near Southampton. In verse 2 ‘… people kill the thing they love’ comes from Oscar Wilde: ‘for each man kills the thing he loves’ (Ballad Read More …
There’s laughter in the loins
*** Although certainly offered for ageing lovers, this hymn is is for all who ‘make love’s home on earth’. COMMENTARY The theological heart of this hymn emerges from reflecting on the name Isaac, that is: God has smiled, laughed. Before Sarah knew Read More …
God, self-fulfilled in diverse ways
* This text from 2002 was my offering to a ‘hymnsearch’ promoted by a church in the USA, who asked for ‘A hymn to call the Church to affirm gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons, and to celebrate their gifts and ministries’. During the course Read More …
O Blessed Fire within
*** An achingly beautiful melody, hauntingly harmonised, to express an attempted response to Jesus’ comment on the seventh Commandment. COMMENTARY This hymn responds to what may be presumed to be one of Christianity’s most deeply felt conversation-killers: You have heard Read More …
Conceived within the womb of Christ
* This hymn for Mothering Sunday comes from the conviction that ‘Christ’s love makes mothers of us all’. Conceived within the womb of Christ.midi COMMENTARY Some people attending a service for ‘Mothers’ Day’ were baffled by this hymn’s insistence that it Read More …
A Song for Anna (anthem)
*** I wrote this originally as a song for the prophetess Anna (Luke 2.36-38), and expanded it into an SATB anthem (unaccompanied, ideally) in 2001. A Song for Anna (choral rvsd 14.6.16).midi
Town and Country (SSA accompanied)
town-and-country-voice-and-piano town-and-country-ssa-accompanied.midi