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Shirley Erena Murray

1931 - 2020 Person Name: Shirley Erena Murray (b. 1931) Author of "When human voices cannot sing" in Ancient and Modern Shirley Erena Murray (b. Invercargill, New Zealand, 1931) studied music as an undergraduate but received a master’s degree (with honors) in classics and French from Otago University. Her upbringing was Methodist, but she became a Presbyterian when she married the Reverend John Stewart Murray, who was a moderator of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Shirley began her career as a teacher of languages, but she became more active in Amnesty International, and for eight years she served the Labor Party Research Unit of Parliament. Her involvement in these organizations has enriched her writing of hymns, which address human rights, women’s concerns, justice, peace, the integrity of creation, and the unity of the church. Many of her hymns have been performed in CCA and WCC assemblies. In recognition for her service as a writer of hymns, the New Zealand government honored her as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit on the Queen’s birthday on 3 June 2001. Through Hope Publishing House, Murray has published three collections of her hymns: In Every Corner Sing (eighty-four hymns, 1992), Everyday in Your Spirit (forty-one hymns, 1996), and Faith Makes the Song (fifty hymns, 2002). The New Zealand Hymnbook Trust, for which she worked for a long time, has also published many of her texts (cf. back cover, Faith Makes the Song). In 2009, Otaga University conferred on her an honorary doctorate in literature for her contribution to the art of hymn writing. I-to Loh, Hymnal Companion to “Sound the Bamboo”: Asian Hymns in Their Cultural and Liturgical Context, p. 468, ©2011 GIA Publications, Inc., Chicago

Christopher M. Idle

b. 1938 Person Name: Chdristopher Idle, b. 1938 Author of "My Lord of Light" in With One Voice Christopher Martin Idle (b. Bromley, Kent, England, 1938) was educated at Elthan College, St. Peter's College, Oxford, and Clifton Theological College in Bristol, and was ordained in the Church of England. He served churches in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria; London; and Oakley, Suffolk; and recently returned to London, where he is involved in various hymnal projects. A prolific author of articles on the Christian's public responsibilities, Idle has also published The Lion Book of Favorite Hymns (1980) and at least one hundred of his own hymns and biblical paraphrases. Some of his texts first appeared in hymnals published by the Jubilate Group, with which he is associated. He was also editor of Anglican Praise (1987). In 1998 Hope Publishing released Light Upon the River, a collection of 279 of his psalm and hymn texts, along with suggested tunes, scripture references, and commentary. Bert Polman

Alice Parker

1925 - 2023 Person Name: Alice Parker, b. 1925 Arranger of "BARBARA ALLEN" in With One Voice

Anonymous

Person Name: Unknown Composer of "[When once I begged Thee save my soul]" in The Cyber Hymnal In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

John L. Bell

b. 1949 Person Name: John L. Bell, b. 1949 Author of "The Broken Body" in Gather Comprehensive 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

Noel Tredinnick

b. 1949 Person Name: Noël Tredinnick (born 1949) Arranger of "BARBARA ALLEN" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) Composer

Beth Bergeron Folkemer

b. 1957 Person Name: Beth Bergeron Folkemer, b. 1957 Author of "Accept, O Lord, the Gifts We Bring" in With One Voice

Stephen Popovich

b. 1953 Author of "Change Me Deeply" in The Cyber Hymnal

Giles Ambrose

1912 - 1997 Person Name: Giles Ambrose, S.S.M. Author of "We Find Tee, Lord" in Praise Ways Ambrose, Giles; (England, May 3, 1912 - ) (He was named Frederick Lee Ambrose but his name changed to Giles when he joined the order) At the age of 16, he entered the "Cottage" at Kelham, England, and then studied at Kelham Theological College. After ordination he joined the Society of the Sacred Mission. He served at St. George's Nottingham, 1935-1939, and was then transferred to the South African Province of the Society. He returned to England in 1963 to become superior of the Mother House at Kelham. He returned to South Africa in 1970 and after retirement lived in Mafeking, South Africa. -Stanley L. Osborne, DNAH Archives After Mafeking, he returned to the UK briefly, where he met my mother Katharine whilst he was University Chaplain at Lancaster University. They married and moved to Rustenburg in South Africa where my father served as the Anglican parish priest. I was born in 1973 and my sister Marguerite was born in 1977. We moved to Pretoria in 1984 and my father was Anglican prison chaplain and also ran the Society of St Leonard helping prisoners and the destitute. My father died on Saturday 23 August 1997, aged 85. He had been a priest for 60 years. Ralph Ambrose, son of Giles (email)

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