Monthly column on hymns and songs: three for a century?
Not many people know this, but very soon we reach the end of the 20th century; the second Christian millennium, in fact. One or two people seem to have jumped the gun 12 months ago; never mind them.
Christopher Idle
How shall we mark the occasion memorably? From the stacks of major hymn books appearing towards the end of this age, I recently picked up ten. Seven are broadly denominational; add three which cross all such boundaries, and we have maybe 90% of the material which Protestant Christians turn to every Sunday if they use books at all. (If they don't, they still benefit from the books their transparencies borrow from.)
