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Graham Maule

1958 - 2019 Person Name: Graham Maule (b. 1958) Scripture: Colossians 2:15 Author of "Heaven shall not wait" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)

Person Name: J. W. Geissnhainer, 1771-1838 Scripture: Colossians 2:6-7 Author of "Fühlt das heiligste entzücken" in Deutsches Gesangbuch für die Evangelisch-Luterische Kirche in den Vereinigten Staaten

William Mair

1830 - 1920 Person Name: William Mair (1830-1920) Scripture: Colossians 2:14-15 Translator of "Sing, my tongue, how glorious battle" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)

Arthur Wellesley Wotherspoon

1853 - 1936 Person Name: Arthur Wellesley Wotherspoon (1853-1936) Scripture: Colossians 2:14-15 Translator of "Sing, my tongue, how glorious battle" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)

Thomas H. Troeger

1945 - 2022 Person Name: Thomas H. Troeger (1945-) Scripture: Colossians 2:6-15 Author of "What King Would Wade" in Common Praise (1998) Thomas Troeger (1945-2022), professor of Christian communication at Yale Divinity school, was a well known preacher, poet, and musician. He was a fellow of Silliman College, held a B.A. from Yale University; B.D. Colgate Rochester Divinity School; S.T. D. Dickinson College, and was awarded an honorary D.D. from Virginia Theological Seminary. He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1970 and the Episcopal Church in 1999, and remained dually aligned with both traditions. Troerger led conferences and lectures in worship and preaching throughout North America, as well as in Denmark, Holland, Australia, Japan, and Africa. He served as national chaplain to the American Guild of Organists, and for at least three years he hosted the Season of Worship broadcast for Cokesbury. He was president of the Academy of Homiletics as well as Societas Homiletica. He had, as of 2009, written 22 books in the areas of preaching, poetry, hymnody, and worship. Many of his hymn texts are found in New Hymns for the Lectionary (Oxford, 1992), and God, You Made All Things for Singing (Oxford, 2009). Laura de Jong

Carl Schalk

1929 - 2021 Person Name: Carl F. Schalk, 1929- Scripture: Colossians 2:12 Composer of "STANLEY BEACH" in Worship and Rejoice Carl F. Schalk (b. Des Plaines, IL, 1929; d. 2021) is professor of music emeritus at Concordia University, River Forest, Illinois, where he taught church music since 1965. He completed graduate work at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri. From 1952 to 1956 he taught and directed music at Zion Lutheran Church in Wausau, Wisconsin, and from 1958 to 1965 served as director of music for the International Lutheran Hour. Honored as a Fellow of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada in 1992, Schalk was editor of the Church Music journal (1966-1980), a member of the committee that prepared the Lutheran Book of Worship (1978), and a widely published composer of church music. Included in his publications are The Roots of Hymnody in The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (1965), Key Words in Church Music (1978), and Luther on Music: Paradigms of Praise (1988). His numerous hymn tunes and carols are collected in the Carl Schalk Hymnary (1989) and its 1991 Supplement. Bert Polman

Samuel L. Speck

Person Name: S. L. S. Scripture: Colossians 2:10 Author of "Complete in Christ" in Select Hymns

José Juan Corti

Scripture: Colossians 2:12 Author of "Testificado en el Bautismo" in Himnario Bautista

Christopher M. Idle

b. 1938 Person Name: Christopher Idle, b. 1938 Scripture: Colossians 2:14 Author of "When you prayed beneath the trees" in Singing the Faith Christopher Martin Idle (b. Bromley, Kent, England, 1938) was educated at Elthan College, St. Peter's College, Oxford, and Clifton Theological College in Bristol, and was ordained in the Church of England. He served churches in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria; London; and Oakley, Suffolk; and recently returned to London, where he is involved in various hymnal projects. A prolific author of articles on the Christian's public responsibilities, Idle has also published The Lion Book of Favorite Hymns (1980) and at least one hundred of his own hymns and biblical paraphrases. Some of his texts first appeared in hymnals published by the Jubilate Group, with which he is associated. He was also editor of Anglican Praise (1987). In 1998 Hope Publishing released Light Upon the River, a collection of 279 of his psalm and hymn texts, along with suggested tunes, scripture references, and commentary. Bert Polman

George Bennard

1873 - 1958 Scripture: Colossians 2:12 Composer of "YOUNGSTOWN" in Himnario Bautista George Bennard (1873-1958) was born in Youngstown, OH. When he was a child the family moved to Albia, Iowa. He served with the Salvation Army in Iowa for several years before he was ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church. His hymn "Speak, my Lord" appears in Triumphant Service Songs (Chicago: Rodeheaver Hall-Mack Co., 1934). He wrote words and tune for his best known hymn "The Old Rugged Cross" in 1913. Mary Louise VanDyke