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No Wind at the Window
Author: John L. Bell Meter: Irregular Appears in 9 hymnals
No Wind at the Window
COLUMCILLE
Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 19 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John L. Bell Tune Sources: Irish melody Tune Key: f sharp minor Incipit: 12332 71112 3345 Used With Text: No Wind at the Window
COLUMCILLE
No Wind at the Window
Author: John L. Bell Hymnal: Glory to God #101 (2013) Meter: 11.11.11.11 First Line: No wind at the window, no knock on the door Topics: Jesus Christ Advent; Women Scripture: Luke 1:26-38 Languages: English Tune Title: COLUMCILLE
No Wind at the Window
No Wind at the Window
Author: John L. Bell, b. 1949 Hymnal: RitualSong #876 (1996) Meter: Irregular Topics: Advent 4 Year B; Annunciation; Blessed Virgin Mary; Commitment; Discipleship; Grace; Kingdom / Reign of God; Mary, Mother of God; Redemption; Salvation; The Annunciation of the Lord (March 25); Vision Scripture: Luke 1:26-38 Languages: English Tune Title: COLUMCILLE
No Wind at the Window
No Wind at the Window
Author: John L. Bell, b. 1949 Hymnal: RitualSong (2nd ed.) #971 (2016) Meter: Irregular Topics: Annunciation of the Lord Languages: English Tune Title: COLUMCILLE
No Wind at the Window
John L. Bell
b. 1949 Author of "No Wind at the Window" in Glory to God John Bell (b. 1949) was born in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, intending to be a music teacher when he felt the call to the ministry. But in frustration with his classes, he did volunteer work in a deprived neighborhood in London for a time and also served for two years as an associate pastor at the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam. After graduating he worked for five years as a youth pastor for the Church of Scotland, serving a large region that included about 500 churches. He then took a similar position with the Iona Community, and with his colleague Graham Maule, began to broaden the youth ministry to focus on renewal of the church’s worship. His approach soon turned to composing songs within the identifiable traditions of hymnody that began to address concerns missing from the current Scottish hymnal:
"I discovered that seldom did our hymns represent the plight of poor people to God. There was nothing that dealt with unemployment, nothing that dealt with living in a multicultural society and feeling disenfranchised. There was nothing about child abuse…,that reflected concern for the developing world, nothing that helped see ourselves as brothers and sisters to those who are suffering from poverty or persecution." [from an interview in Reformed Worship (March 1993)]
That concern not only led to writing many songs, but increasingly to introducing them internationally in many conferences, while also gathering songs from around the world. He was convener for the fourth edition of the Church of Scotland’s Church Hymnary (2005), a very different collection from the previous 1973 edition. His books, The Singing Thing and The Singing Thing Too, as well as the many collections of songs and worship resources produced by John Bell—some together with other members of the Iona Community’s “Wild Goose Resource Group,” —are available in North America from GIA Publications.
Emily Brink
John L. Bell
