Monthly column on hymns and songs
It is often healthy to have one's assumptions challenged. I have been slow to feel the force of two contemporary responses to new hymns.
Christopher Idle
The first is the most radical. To quote one critic: 'The Lord may already have given to the church the major portion of hymns to be used to the end of the age.' Think for a moment, and you can hardly disagree - unless there are two more millennia before the Lord returns. We are unlikely to rival the wealth of our inheritance in less time than it took to accumulate.
