Monthly column on hymns and songs
A casual comment, like a whodunnit clue, sometimes leads on to much bigger discoveries. You could almost call them crimes, or at least cover-ups. Earlier this year two friends were chatting and unearthed something like a plot.
Christopher Idle
She
Let's start with her. She, you will be surprised to hear, does not believe that all the good hymns have already been written. Spurred on by her experience of the Lord's grace, her discoveries of Scripture and her awareness of a rapidly changing world, she writes new ones. Many are already in print. Not being as mobile as some of us, she relies mainly on what goes on in her own evangelical church, where she has belonged for some years.
