hymnal

Monday evening I got through with a recording session at midnight, had chilaquiles, and dozed a bit as Catherine drove me to Houston. After a few hours' sleep, I had breakfast with Jason Young, Patrick Watts, and a Big Important Guy at Lifeway Publishing. We ate beautiful omelettes. We caught up a bit. Oh, and we talked about doing arrangements for Lifeway's new edition of the Baptist Hymnal, due out sometime next year.

Finally, I get to get my hands on "God Of Earth And Outer Space!"

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Bill said…
So, once you got your hands on it, what did you do? Do you like it or hate it?

=Bill Rayborn=
TCMR Enteprises, Inc.
barrybrake said…
Heh - well it hasn't happened yet, actually. This was only the exploratory meeting.

But I'm a bit torn about GOEAOS: on one hand, it seems to be the very symbol of those clunky attempts by churches to be up-to-date and relevant, only to fail miserably.

On the other hand, it is the Baptist church's greatest gift to kids, far surpassing RAs, GAs, and the Super-Humongous Pizza Pigout. There are very few people my age who grew up Baptist who don't crack up at a reference to hymn number 20.

That said, I actually don't have any choice at all in the choosing of material — I'm just a hired hand.

God of power, God of might, God of rockets firing bright!! — not quite William Blake, but it does have a certain thrust to it.

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