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Michael Morgan

b. 1948 Topics: Anniversaries; Biblical Names and Places David; Biblical Names and Places Ephrathah; Biblical Names and Places Jaar; Biblical Names and Places Jacob; Biblical Names and Places Zion; Church Year Advent; Church Year Advent; Covenant; Disciples / Calling; Doubt; Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration; Endurance; Faith; God Light from; God Trust in; God Trust in; God's Justice; God's People (flock, sheep); Jesus Christ Incarnation; Joy; Occasional Services Dedication / Consecration / Anniversary; Occasional Services Ordination and/or Installation; Royal Psalms; The Incarnation; Unity and Fellowship; Year B, Reign of Christ, November 20-26 Author of "Once In Royal David's City, When the King Was in Distress" in Psalms for All Seasons Michael Morgan (b. 1948) is a church musician, Psalm scholar, and collector of English Bibles and Psalters from Atlanta, Georgia. After almost 40 years, he now serves as Organist Emeritus for Atlanta’s historic Central Presbyterian Church, and as Seminary Musician at Columbia Theological Seminary. He holds degrees from Florida State University and Atlanta University, and did post-graduate study with composer Richard Purvis in San Francisco. He has played recitals, worship services, and master classes across the U. S., and in England, France, Spain, Switzerland, and Germany. He is author of the Psalter for Christian Worship (1999; rev. 2010), and a regular contributor in the field of psalmody (most recently to the Reformed collections Psalms for All Seasons and Lift Up Your Hearts, and the new Presbyterian hymnal, Glory to God). Michael Morgan

Marie J. Post

1919 - 1990 Topics: Biblical Names and Places David; Biblical Names and Places Egypt; Biblical Names and Places Israel; Biblical Names and Places Mount Hermon; Biblical Names and Places Rahab; Biblical Names and Places Tabor; Church Year Advent; Church Year Baptism of the Lord; Covenant; Discipleship; Doxologies; Earth; Elements of Worship Call to Worship; Elements of Worship Gathering; God as Shield; God as King; God's Wonders; God's Armor; God's Compassion; God's Deeds; God's Faithfulness; God's Justice; God's Love; God's Majesty; God's People (flock, sheep); Happiness; Joy; Judgment; Lament Community; Love; New Creation; Occasional Services Dedication / Consecration / Anniversary; Occasional Services Funerals; Occasional Services New Year; People of God / Church Citizens of Heaven; Royal Psalms; Truth; Unity and Fellowship; Witness; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, June 26-July 2; Year B, Advent, 4th Sunday; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, July 17-23 Author (st. 2) of "I Will Sing of the Mercies of the LORD" in Psalms for All Seasons Marie (Tuinstra) Post (b. Jenison, MI, 1919; d. Grand Rapids, MI, 1990) While attending Dutch church services as a child, Post was first introduced to the Genevan psalms, which influenced her later writings. She attended Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she studied with Henry Zylstra. From 1940 to 1942 she taught at the Muskegon Christian Junior High School. For over thirty years Post wrote poetry for the Grand Rapids Press and various church periodicals. She gave many readings of her poetry in churches and schools and has been published in a number of journals and poetry anthologies. Two important collections of her poems are I Never Visited an Artist Before (1977) and the posthumous Sandals, Sails, and Saints (1993). A member of the 1987 Psalter Hymnal Revision Committee, Post was a significant contributor to its array of original texts and paraphrases. Bert Polman

Alfred V. Fedak

b. 1953 Person Name: Alfred V. Fedak, b. 1953 Topics: Biblical Names and Places David; Biblical Names and Places Egypt; Biblical Names and Places Israel; Biblical Names and Places Mount Hermon; Biblical Names and Places Rahab; Biblical Names and Places Tabor; Church Year Advent; Church Year Baptism of the Lord; Covenant; Discipleship; Doxologies; Earth; Elements of Worship Call to Worship; Elements of Worship Gathering; God as Shield; God as King; God's Wonders; God's Armor; God's Compassion; God's Deeds; God's Faithfulness; God's Justice; God's Love; God's Majesty; God's People (flock, sheep); Happiness; Joy; Judgment; Lament Community; Love; New Creation; Occasional Services Dedication / Consecration / Anniversary; Occasional Services Funerals; Occasional Services New Year; People of God / Church Citizens of Heaven; Royal Psalms; Truth; Unity and Fellowship; Witness; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, June 26-July 2; Year B, Advent, 4th Sunday; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, July 17-23 Harmonizer of "GENEVAN 89" in Psalms for All Seasons Alfred Fedak (b. 1953), is a well-known organist, composer, and Minister of Music at Westminster Presbyterian Church on Capitol Hill in Albany, New York. He graduated from Hope College in 1975 with degrees in organ performance and music history. He obtained a Master’s degree in organ performance from Montclair State University, and has also studied at Westminster Choir College, Eastman School of Music, the Institute for European Studies in Vienna, and at the first Cambridge Choral Studies Seminar at Clare College, Cambridge. As a composer, he has over 200 choral and organ works in print, and has three published anthologies of his work (Selah Publishing). In 1995, he was named a Visiting Fellow in Church Music at Episcopal Seminary of the Soutwest in Austin, Texas. He is also a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists, and was awarded the AGO’s prestigious S. Lewis Elmer Award. Fedak is a Life Member of the Hymn Society, and writes for The American Organist, The Hymn, Reformed Worship, and Music and Worship. He was a member of the Presbyterian Committee on Congregational Song that prepared Glory to God, the 2013 hymnal of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Laura de Jong

Robert Buckley Farlee

b. 1950 Topics: Angels; Biblical Names and Places David; Biblical Names and Places Egypt; Biblical Names and Places Ephraim; Biblical Names and Places Exodus; Biblical Names and Places Ham; Biblical Names and Places Israel; Biblical Names and Places Jacob; Biblical Names and Places Joseph; Biblical Names and Places Judah; Biblical Names and Places Shiloh; Biblical Names and Places Zion; Biblical Names and Places Zoan; Covenant; Disciples / Calling; Elements of Worship Call to Confession; Elements of Worship Lord's Supper; Faith; Fear; God Obedience to; God's Armor; God's Forgiveness; God's law; God's People (flock, sheep); God's Promise of Redemption; God's Strength; God's Way; Grace; Historical Psalms; Life Stages Children; Life Stages Family; Life Stages Generations; Love for God; Mercy; Occasional Services Civic / National Occasions; The Fall; Trust; War and Revolution; Witness; Year A, B, C, Holy Cross, September 14; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, November 6-12; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, September 25-October 1; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, July 31-August 6 Arranger of "YISRAEL V'ORAITA" in Psalms for All Seasons Robert Buckley Farlee is Associate Pastor and Director of Music at Christ Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. Bob Farlee and his wife Jane Buckley-Farlee (pastor at Trinity Lutheran Congregation, ELCA, Minneapolis) were ordained on July 13, 1980, in St. Louis, Missouri, at Unity Lutheran Church, Bel-Nor. It was at Unity Lutheran that Bob served as music director. Then in November of 1981, Bob joined the staff at Christ Church Lutheran, Minneapolis, where he has served both as a pastor and as cantor. Buckley Farlee is a graduates of Christ Seminary-Seminex, St. Louis, Missouri. He also serves on the worship editorial staff at Augsburg Fortress Publishers, and was deeply involved in the recent publication of Evangelical Lutheran Worship, the new book of worship for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. They are continuing to develop its supporting materials for this resource. --metrolutheran.org/2010/07 (excerpts)

Martin Tel

Topics: Angels; Biblical Names and Places David; Biblical Names and Places Egypt; Biblical Names and Places Ephraim; Biblical Names and Places Exodus; Biblical Names and Places Ham; Biblical Names and Places Israel; Biblical Names and Places Jacob; Biblical Names and Places Joseph; Biblical Names and Places Judah; Biblical Names and Places Shiloh; Biblical Names and Places Zion; Biblical Names and Places Zoan; Covenant; Disciples / Calling; Elements of Worship Call to Confession; Elements of Worship Lord's Supper; Faith; Fear; God Obedience to; God's Armor; God's Forgiveness; God's law; God's People (flock, sheep); God's Promise of Redemption; God's Strength; God's Way; Grace; Historical Psalms; Life Stages Children; Life Stages Family; Life Stages Generations; Love for God; Mercy; Occasional Services Civic / National Occasions; The Fall; Trust; War and Revolution; Witness; Year A, B, C, Holy Cross, September 14; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, November 6-12; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, September 25-October 1; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, July 31-August 6 Author (st. 3) of "Open Your Ears, O Faithful People" in Psalms for All Seasons Martin Tel is the C. F. Seabrook Director of Music at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. He conducts the seminary choirs, teaches courses in church music, and administers the music for the daily seminary worship services. He served as senior editor of Psalms for All Seasons: A Complete Psalter for Worship (2012). His love for music began in a dairy barn in rural Washington State, where he heard his father belt out psalms and hymns while milking the cows. Martin earned degrees in church music and theology from Dordt College, the University of Notre Dame, Calvin Theological Seminary, and the University of Kansas. He has served as minister of music in Christian Reformed, Reformed Church in America, and Presbyterian congregations. With his wife, Sharilyn, he is raising three children in Princeton, New Jersey. Lift Up Your Hearts

Luis Olivieri

1937 - 2017 Person Name: Louis Olivieri Topics: Atonement; Biblical Names and Places David; Biblical Names and Places Israel; Biblical Names and Places Jesse; Biblical Names and Places Seba; Biblical Names and Places Sheba; Biblical Names and Places Tarshish; Church Year Advent; Church Year Ascension of the Lord; Church Year Christ the King; Church Year Epiphany; Doxologies; Earth; Elements of Worship Gathering; Elements of Worship Lord's Supper; Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration; Elements of Worship Sending; God as King; God's Armor; God's Glory; God's law; Mission; New Creation; Occasional Services Civic / National Occasions; Peace; Poverty; Royal Psalms; Rulers; Salvation; Social Justice; The Needy; Truth; Year A, Advent, 2nd Sunday; Year A, B, C, Epiphany, Epiphany of our Lord (January 6 or Sunday before Epiphany); Texts in Languages Other than English Spanish Author of "Están en tumano (In Your Hand Alone)" in Psalms for All Seasons Puerto Rico, University and Seminary Professor, Baptist Minister Sing a New Song No. 3 by Patrick Prescod (Bridgetown, Barbados: Cedar Press, 1981)

Marcus Hong

Topics: Atonement; Biblical Names and Places David; Biblical Names and Places Israel; Biblical Names and Places Jesse; Biblical Names and Places Seba; Biblical Names and Places Sheba; Biblical Names and Places Tarshish; Church Year Advent; Church Year Ascension of the Lord; Church Year Christ the King; Church Year Epiphany; Doxologies; Earth; Elements of Worship Gathering; Elements of Worship Lord's Supper; Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration; Elements of Worship Sending; God as King; God's Armor; God's Glory; God's law; Mission; New Creation; Occasional Services Civic / National Occasions; Peace; Poverty; Royal Psalms; Rulers; Salvation; Social Justice; The Needy; Truth; Year A, Advent, 2nd Sunday; Year A, B, C, Epiphany, Epiphany of our Lord (January 6 or Sunday before Epiphany); Texts in Languages Other than English Spanish Arranger of "HERMANAS JESÚS MEDIADOR" in Psalms for All Seasons Marcus A. Hong, originally from Salt Lake City, graduated from Alma College in Michigan in religious studies, where he also served as a Student Ministry Coordinator, developing the student worship program; he then studied at Princeton Theological Seminary, receiving both an M.Div. and MA in Christian Education program in 2011, and then began a PhD program in Christian Education and Formation. He served as a chaplain from 2011-2015 in Koinonia, the fellowship for Princeton Seminary’s PhD students. He is co-author of UWorship (2014) and several of his musical arrangements were included in Psalms for All Seasons (2012). Emily Brink

Val Parker

Topics: Atonement; Biblical Names and Places David; Biblical Names and Places Israel; Biblical Names and Places Jesse; Biblical Names and Places Seba; Biblical Names and Places Sheba; Biblical Names and Places Tarshish; Church Year Advent; Church Year Ascension of the Lord; Church Year Christ the King; Church Year Epiphany; Doxologies; Earth; Elements of Worship Gathering; Elements of Worship Lord's Supper; Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration; Elements of Worship Sending; God as King; God's Armor; God's Glory; God's law; Mission; New Creation; Occasional Services Civic / National Occasions; Peace; Poverty; Royal Psalms; Rulers; Salvation; Social Justice; The Needy; Truth; Year A, Advent, 2nd Sunday; Year A, B, C, Epiphany, Epiphany of our Lord (January 6 or Sunday before Epiphany) Composer of "[Lord, every nation on earth will adore you]" in Psalms for All Seasons

Pedro C. Escabi

Person Name: Pedro Escabí Topics: Atonement; Biblical Names and Places David; Biblical Names and Places Israel; Biblical Names and Places Jesse; Biblical Names and Places Seba; Biblical Names and Places Sheba; Biblical Names and Places Tarshish; Church Year Advent; Church Year Ascension of the Lord; Church Year Christ the King; Church Year Epiphany; Doxologies; Earth; Elements of Worship Gathering; Elements of Worship Lord's Supper; Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration; Elements of Worship Sending; God as King; God's Armor; God's Glory; God's law; Mission; New Creation; Occasional Services Civic / National Occasions; Peace; Poverty; Royal Psalms; Rulers; Salvation; Social Justice; The Needy; Truth; Year A, Advent, 2nd Sunday; Year A, B, C, Epiphany, Epiphany of our Lord (January 6 or Sunday before Epiphany); Texts in Languages Other than English Spanish Composer of "HERMANAS JESÚS MEDIADOR" in Psalms for All Seasons Puerto Rico, Musicologist Sing a New Song No. 3 by Patrick Prescod (Bridgetown, Barbados: Cedar Press, 1981)