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 …
* 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 …
* This hymn is inspired by the story of God’s calling and commissioning Moses at the burning bush. A man of blood, a man of zeal.midi When I worked on a French building site in 1958, MARJOLAINE was a recently best-selling Read More …
*** This hymn is a prayer for weapons disarmament and the promotion of divine love as the means to establish world peace. COMMENTARY A celebrated prophecy envisages divine intervention on behalf of God’s people who have long suffered from violent Read More …
*** This very accessible hymn outlines the story told in Acts 2: ‘When the day of Pentecost had fully come… ‘ It was written while my wife was visiting her parents in PENARTH. COMMENTARY The first half of this hymn Read More …
*** This hymn is based on two Scripture stories that tell of highly significant pregnancies. Brooding love, creative breath.midi COMMENTARY In Isaiah (A) young woman is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel. Matthew says that Read More …
*** This hymn, composed in CORRIS UCHAF, Powys, explores the paradox that in Jesus’ arrest and trial it is the prisoner who is judge, the victim who represents supreme authority. And Christ’s passion is universalized, so that innocent victims find Read More …
** This setting provided the prelude to a music-drama at Lee Abbey about the Passion of Christ.