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Aaron Keyes

Topics: Year B, Ordinary Time after Epiphany, 3rd Sunday Composer of "[My soul finds rest in God alone]" in Psalms for All Seasons Aaron Keyes has served as worship pastor at Grace Fellowship Church in George, Atlanta, for ten years. He and his wife Megan graduated from Furman University in Greensville, South Carolina, where they were part of planting City Church with Aaron’s parents. Passionate about training worship leaders to become worship pastors, in 2007 Aaron and Megan began their Worship School. For a few months out of the year, a group of young worship leaders live with them and their four sons as part of an intensive worship discipleship course. Aaron travels internationally with his band, leading worship and training leaders. Laura de Jong

Sheldon W. Sorge

Topics: Year B, Ordinary Time after Epiphany, 3rd Sunday Author of "In Silence My Soul Thirsts" in Psalms for All Seasons The Rev. Dr. Sheldon W. Sorge, has been named Associate Director of the Louisville Institute, effective January 1, 2007. An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), Sorge has served since 2000 as Associate for Theology and Worship in the national offices of the denomination. In that position, he directed the Company of New Pastors, a national mentored peer-group program for ministerial candidates and first-call pastors funded by Lilly Endowment. Previously he served churches in Durham, North Carolina; Marion, Virginia; and Elkins, West Virginia. He has also taught at Duke Divinity School, King College, Elim Bible Institute, the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, and the Evangelical Theological Seminary of Croatia. A native of western Canada, Sorge was educated at Roberts Wesleyan College and Duke University, where he earned the Ph.D. in Christian theology and ethics and wrote a dissertation on Karl Barth and ecclesiology. Author of numerous published essays on theology, worship, and ministry, he also continues to pursue a life-long love of music as a pianist and composer. He is married to the Rev. Tammy Wiens, who earned her Masters in theology from Louisville Seminary in 2006, and has two grown daughters and two grandsons. His daughter, Stephanie Sorge, is a Master of Divinity student at Louisville Seminary. The Louisville Institute is a Lilly Endowment program based at Louisville Seminary supporting those who lead and study American religious institutions. --www.lpts.edu/news/2006/12/18 =================== Sheldon W. Sorge is Executive Presbyter of the Pittsburgh Presbytery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He formerly served as Associate Director of the Louisville Institute in Louisville, Kentucky. http://www.thethoughtfulchristian.com

E. Harold Geer

1886 - 1957 Person Name: E. Harold Geer Topics: Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, November 13-19; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, July 3-9 Adapter of "THE CALL" in Psalms for All Seasons

John Hunter

1849 - 1917 Author of "Dear Master, in Whose Life I See" Born: July 12, 1848, Aberdeen, Scotland. Died: September 15, 1917, Hampstead, London, England. Hunter was educated at Mansfield College, Oxford, and became a Congregational minister. He served at York (1871), Hull (1882), and Trinity Church, Glasgow (1887). He moved to King’s Weigh House Chapel, London, in 1901, returning to Trinity, Glasgow, three years later. A breakdown in health compelled him to resign in 1913. His works include: Devotional Services for Public Worship, 1886 Hymns of Faith and Life, 1889 Hymns for Faith and Life, 1899 --www.hymntime.com/tch

Lisa Stolley Hines

Topics: Ordinary Time Week 6 Author of "In Winter's Grip, the Earth Lies Cold" in Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship

Bradley Ellingboe

Topics: Year A, Ordinary Time after Epiphany, 6th Sunday; Year A, Ordinary Time after Epiphany, 7th Sudnay; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, July 10-16; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, July 24-30; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, September 4-10; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, October 30-November 5; Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, October 16-22; Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, October 30-November 5 Composer of "[Grant me understanding, that I may live]" in Psalms for All Seasons Bradley Ellingboe has led a wide-ranging career in the world of singing, including accomplishments as a choral conductor, soloist, composer, scholar and teacher. As a choral conductor he has led festival choruses in 35 states and 14 foreign countries. He made his operatic conducting debut in December, 2011, leading the world-premiere of Stephen Paulus’s opera Shoes for the Santo Niño in a joint production by the Santa Fe Opera and the University of New Mexico. As a bass-baritone soloist he has sung under such conductors as Robert Shaw, Helmuth Rilling, and Sir David Willcocks. Ellingboe has over 140 pieces of music in print, including the Requiem for chorus and orchestra, which has been performed more than 300 times in this country and Europe, and his newest work, Star Song, which had its New York debut (Lincoln Center) in May of 2014, and its European debut in July of that year. For his scholarly work in making the songs of Edvard Grieg more accessible to the English-speaking public, he was knighted by the King of Norway in 1994. As a teacher, the University of New Mexico Alumni Association named him Faculty of the Year in 2008. Bradley Ellingboe retired in 2015 after serving on the faculty of the University of New Mexico for 30 years, where he was Director of Choral Activities, Professor of Music and Regents Lecturer. During his three decades at UNM he also served at various times as Chairman of the Department of Music and Coordinator of Vocal Studies. He is a graduate of Saint Olaf College and the Eastman School of Music and has done further study at the Aspen Music Festival, the Bach Aria Festival, the University of Oslo and the Vatican. His music has been performed and recorded by such groups as the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Philip Brunelle’s VocalEssence, the Saint Olaf Choir, the Harvard Glee Club, Craig Hella Johnson’s Conspirare, and the choirs of the University of Michigan and Luther College, among many others. From Bradley Ellingboe.com, authorized by Bradley Ellingboe

Elizabeth Haile

Author of "O God the Creator" Elizabeth Haile has been active in the work of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in a variety of capacities, many relating to work with Native Americans. He daughter, Holly Haile Smith, is the first Native American woman ordained in the PC(USA). Haile lives on the Shinnecock reservation in Southhampton, Long Island, New York. --The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion, 1993

D'Arcy Wood

b. 1936 Versifier of "O Lord Jesus Marrkapmirr"

Norman J. Goreham

b. 1931 Topics: Year A, Ordinary Time after Epiphany, Transfiguration Sunday; Year A, Ordinary Time after Epiphany, Transfiguration Sunday Author of "Why This Dark Conspiracy" in Psalms for All Seasons Norman J Goreham is a presbyter in the Methodist Church of New Zealand. Born and educated in England, he developed a love of Christian hymns as a boy during the Second World War, when, his mother, a devout woman, would sing hymns to her family during air raids to keep everyone’s spirits up. However he did not start writing hymn texts himself until he retired. Ordained in 1958, he served in England, West Africa and the United States of America before taking up residence in New Zealand in 1976. He holds honors degrees in theology from two British universities, is married and has two adult children and two adult grandchildren. He was the winner of the 1977 contest for a hymn to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators and a co-winner in the 2011 Macalester Plymouth Hymn Contest. Other hymns and psalm settings of his have appeared in Hymns for the Journey (Gemini Press International), Singing the New Testament (Faith Alive Christian Resources), Psalms for All Seasons: A Complete Psalter for Worship (Faith Alive Christian Resources) and Gifts in Open Hands: More Worship Resources for the Global Community (The Pilgrim Press). Other published hymns: 1. Title: Celebrating Christian Education First Line: In the Temple courts discerning Published By: Association of Presbyterian Church Educators Published In: APCE Advocate, fall issue, September 1997 2. Title: Holy Spirit, Come Enliven First Line: Holy Spirit, come enliven Published By: Gemini Press International Name of Collection: Hymns for the Journey Year: 2002 3. Title: Open Doors First Line: When the doors are tightly shut Published By: The Pilgrim Press Name of Collection: Gifts in Open Hands: More Worship Resources for the Global Community Year: 2011 4. Title: Hear the Word of Grace First Line: Hear the courteous word of grace Published By: The Pilgrim Press Name of Collection: Gifts in Open Hands: More Worship Resources for the Global Community Year: 2011 5. Title: Hosanna! First Line: We join the crowds, who, on this day Published By: The Pilgrim Press Name of Collection: Gifts in Open Hands: More Worship Resources for the Global Community Year: 2011 6. Title: Sorrow Turned into Joy First Line: Hear me, Lord, in my distress Published By: The Pilgrim Press Name of Collection: Gifts in Open Hands: More Worship Resources for the Global Community Year: 2011 7. Title: Seek the Welfare of the City First Line: Seek the welfare of the city Published By: Macalester Plymouth United Church, St. Paul, Minnesota Occasion: Co-winner of the 2011 Macalester Plymouth Hymn Contest Year 2012 Norman Goreham