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Gracia Grindal

b. 1943 Scripture: Matthew 1:25 Author of "A Babe Is Born" in Scripture Song Database Gracia Grindal (b. Powers Lake, ND, 1943). Grindal was educated at Augsburg College, Minneapolis, Minnesota; the University of Arkansas; and Luther-Northwestern Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota, where she has served since 1984 as a professor of pastoral theology and communications. From 1968 to 1984 she was a professor of English and poet-in-residence at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa. Included in her publications are Sketches Against the Dark (1981), Scandinavian Folksongs (1983), Lessons in Hymnwriting (1986, 1991), We Are One in Christ: Hymns, Paraphrases, and Translations (1996), Good News of Great Joy: Advent Devotions for the Home (1994 with Karen E. Hong), Lina Sandell, the Story of Her Hymns (2001 with John Jansen), and A Revelry of Harvest: New and Selected Poems (2002). She was instrumental in producing the Lutheran Book of Worship (1978) and The United Methodist Hymnal (1989). Bert Polman

Antonio Alcalde

b. 1952 Person Name: Antonio Alcalde, n. 1952 Scripture: Matthew 1:23 Composer of "[Aleluya, aleluya, aleluya]" in Flor Y Canto (2nd ed.)

Alberto Taulé

1932 - 2007 Person Name: Alberto Taulé, b. 1932 Scripture: Matthew 1:18-25 Author of "All Earth is Hopeful" in With One Voice Alberto Taulé (b. Barcelona, Spain, 1932; d. March 24, 2007), a Roman Catholic priest and musician from the culturally distinctive and semi-autonomous Catalunya region of northeastern Spain. Sing! A New Creation

Madeleine Forell Marshall

b. 1946 Person Name: Madeleine Forell Marshall, b. 1946 Scripture: Matthew 1:18-25 Translator of "All Earth is Hopeful" in With One Voice

Dave Moody

Scripture: Matthew 1:23 Author of "All Hail King Jesus" in The Faith We Sing

João Carlos Hailer

b. 1935 Person Name: João Carlos Hailer, b. 1935 Scripture: Matthew 1:21 Author of "All Is Joy and All Is Singing" in When Breaks the Dawn

João Wilson Faustini

1931 - 2023 Scripture: Matthew 1:21 Translator of "All Is Joy and All Is Singing" in When Breaks the Dawn b. 1931, Bariri, São Paulo, Brazil. Presbyterian pastor, choir director, organist, singer, composer, translator, arranger and publisher of largest collection of Sacred Music in the Portuguese language. From 1982 to 1996 - Pastor at St. Paul's Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) Newark, NJ St. Paul's Presbyterian Church in Newark is the oldest Brazilian Presbyterian Church in the USA. Retired on December 31, 1996. After Rev. Faustini was a Minister of Music at Second Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth.

Pennar Davies

1911 - 1996 Person Name: William Thomas Pennar Davies (1911-1996) Scripture: Matthew 1:18-25 Author, st. 2 of "All Poor Folk and Humble" in Common Praise (1998) b. Wales 1911; Ph. D. Yale 1944; prof. of church history, Wales; author (writes in Welsh

Katharine Emily Roberts

1877 - 1962 Person Name: Katherine E. Roberts (1877-1962) Scripture: Matthew 1:18-25 Author, st. 1 of "All Poor Folk and Humble" in Common Praise (1998) Katherine Emily (Clayton) Roberts was born in 1877 in Leicester, England. Her father, Rev. Lewis Clayton, later became Suffragan Bishop of Leicester and Assistant Bishop of Peterborough. Her mother, Katherine (Hare) Clayton was active in the woman's suffrage movement in England. Katherine Emily Clayton married Rev. Robert Edwin Roberts (1878 - 1940) on January 17, 1901 at Peterborough Cathedral. He was born in Wales (Llangernyw), served as a Master at the Choir School of Westminster Abbey, saw active duty in World War I as a chaplain, worked in a munitions factory, and became a Canon of the Church of England and Dean of Leicester Cathedral. He was reportedly a gifted baritone singer who often gave lecturers on Welsh, Irish and Scottish music. He compiled hymnals and composed the tune, PHILIPPINE, presumably named for his daughter, born in 1919. Katherine and her husband wrote a history, "Peterborough," published in 1920 in the series "The Story of the English Towns." Katherine E. Roberts translated and freely paraphrased Welsh carols for The Oxford Book of Carols. Translations include "Dark the Night Lay" (No. 9) and "All Poor Men and Humble" (34). Paraphrases include "Awake Were They Only Those Shepherds So Lonely" (59) and "Now The Joyful Bells A-Ringing" (50), better known in its secular version as Deck The Halls. She wrote the baptism text "O Lord, Thy People Gathered Here," for her husband’s tune PHILIPPINE. Chris Hoh, used by permission