A British Look at The Worshipbook

Abstract

“Hymn-singing is more than just leaning back and shouting something you have known all your life. … Allied with that is the principle that the church should no longer be something a decent musician holds in contempt. Chorally, it isn't. … But congregational music is still largely a matter of singing ‘the old favorites.’ I'm afraid that being an ‘old favorite’ is not a theologically honorable condition.”