Subbing

Today is my second Sunday of subbing at St. Francis, Eureka, where the congregation is warm and welcoming, the skies are blue, and the piano is a Kimball. Although the liturgy is form the Book of Common Prayer, I’m getting in touch with my Baptist roots just a little bit at the piano. There may

Hymns: All my hope

I have to end this six-day journey through my favorite hymn verses with the text “All my hope on God is founded” by Herbert Howells (1892-1983). Howells is one of my boys — one of those composers who music invades my mind, feeds my soul, and tugs at (and confounds) my heart. The tune is

Hymns: One foundation

The church’s one foundationis Jesus Christ, our Lord;we are a new creationby water and the Word.From heav’n he came and taught uswhat perfect love can be;through life and death he sought us,and rose to set us free. Yet we on earth have unionwith God, the Three in One,and mystic, sweet communionwith those whose rest is