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God's Melody of Peace

Author: Barbara Howard, 1930-; Richard Howard, 1929- Meter: 6.6.8.8.6.6 with refrain Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Oppression First Line: God's melody of peace Refrain First Line: We're singing a new song Used With Tune: MARCHING TO ZION

Through All the World a Hungry Christ

Author: Shirley Erena Murray, 1931- Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Oppression Lyrics: 1 Through all the world a hungry Christ must scavenge far for daily bread, must beg the rich for crumb and crust. We are the rich, the daily fed. 2 Beyond the church a leper Christ takes each untouchable by hand, gives hope to those who have no trust, whose stigma is our social brand. 3 In torture cell, a pris'ner Christ for justice and for truth must cry to free the innocent oppressed while we at liberty pass by. 4 We do not know you, beggar Christ, we do not recognize your sores, we do not see, for we are blind: forgive us, touch us, make us yours. Used With Tune: BOURBON

In Christ We Live

Author: Brian Wren, 1936- Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Oppression First Line: In Christ we live, whose life was more Lyrics: 1 In Christ we live, whose life was more than teaching love and doing good. In Christ we meet, whose trust in God derision, fear, and hate withstood. 2 In Christ we hope, whose death exposed the evil bent, the tragic flaw in leaders, followers, and friends, religion, government, and law. 3 In Christ we grieve the trampled lives of people shunned, abused, oppressed. In Christ we ow to serve the weak and lobby for the dispossessed. 4 And if we find out how and when to show them they are not alone, we will not proudly be their voice, but humbly help them find their own. 5 Their kindness, anger, or distrust are angels, calling us to see the fear, the need to have and hold, that frame our own captivity. 6 In Christ we live, and life is more than learning love and doing good, so praise, and pray, and trust in God who makes the earth our neighborhood. Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 Used With Tune: O WALY WALY

Lord, Make Us Instruments

Author: St. Francis of Assisi, 1182-1226; Kirk Dearman, 1952-; Deby Dearman, 1953- Appears in 5 hymnals Topics: Oppression First Line: Where there is hatred, we will sow your love Scripture: 2 Corinthians 2:14-17 Used With Tune: [Where there is hatred, we will sow your love]

Friend of the Streetwalker

Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr. Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Oppression First Line: Friend of the streetwalker, beggar, and child Lyrics: 1 Friend of the streetwalker, beggar, and child, lifting and blessing the weak and reviled, welcoming those the devout turned away: Jesus, we need your example today. 2 Take from us prejudice, hatred, and scorn, fear and suspicion of anyone born outside our fences of money and race: help us, O God, not to shun but embrace. 3 Open our hearts and our heads and our hands, let us experience how caring expands past all the labels and limits we learn: Spirit of mercy, enlarge our concern. 4 Three-personed Mystery, multiple One, joined by diversity never undone: may we more truly your image reveal, coming together to make your love real. Scripture: Matthew 25:37-41 Used With Tune: MYRRH-BEARING MARY

Till All the Jails Are Empty

Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr., 1944- Meter: 7.6.8.6 D with refrain Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Oppression Refrain First Line: God has work for us to do Lyrics: 1 Till all the jails are empty and all the bellies filled; till no one hurts or steals or lies, and no more blood is spilled: till age and race and gender no longer separate; till pulpit, press, and politics are free of greed and hate: Refrain: God has work for us to do. 2 In tenement and mansion, in fact'ry, farm, and mill, in boardroom and in billiard hall, in wards where time stands still, in classroom, church, and office, in shops or on the street; in every place where people thrive or starve or hide or meet: [Refrain] 3 By sitting at a bedside to hold pale trembling hands, by speaking for the powerless against unjust demand, by praying through our doing and singing though we fear, by trusting that the seed we sow will bring God's harvest near: [Refrain] Scripture: Luke 4:16-21 Used With Tune: WORK TO DO