tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20702671.post113736096896787858..comments2023-04-07T14:15:14.735+01:00Comments on Bad things in new hymn books and other sad tales: Lone and dreary, faint and wearyCatherine Rowetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15356313351798903675noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20702671.post-1139214912842853192006-02-06T08:35:00.000+00:002006-02-06T08:35:00.000+00:00The less said about Hymns Old and New the better, ...The less said about <I>Hymns Old and New</I> the better, but at least it admits that it is interfering with the words just in order to censor our values and prohibit certain traditional Christian moral teachings— unlike the NEH which tries to pretend that its motives are not political at all, as though it was obvious to everyone that the poet who wrote 'lone and dreary, faint and weary' was just Catherine Rowetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15356313351798903675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20702671.post-1138104420434813362006-01-24T12:07:00.000+00:002006-01-24T12:07:00.000+00:00I boggled at that change in `Lead us heavenly Fath...I boggled at that change in `Lead us heavenly Father lead us' too. NEH is usually better at not changing hymns than many books, but I was severely disappointed with it there!<BR/><BR/>I was at a baptism at a church which uses <I>Hymns Old and New: Anglican Edition</I> and at one point when I got bored (it was horrendously chaotic and disjointed)* I read part of the introduction to the hymn book Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com