We expect to be around Belfast today - North Down Museum, Titanic Museum, and CS Lewis sites. Then on to Carrickfergus Castle, part of the Causeway Coastal Route, and then up near Giant's Causeway.
In the meantime, I did an adult Sunday School class in 2007 on the history of the lyrics of Christian hymnody. We tend to think that traditional worship music was what our grandparents sang. That stuff is mostly pretty new, when you start to look into it. We have changed greatly over the years, not only in musical styles, but lyrical.
And I still think that "Be Thou My Vision" should be sung freely and quickly. Maybe I can get someone here to do it for me.
Hymns Get Ridiculously Complicated, 16th-18th C
19th C Hymnody - Jesus as Cosmic Pal For those who deplore what they see as modern "Jesus is My Boyfriend" worship music, it is a direct descendant of this style. And theology.
The People's Music - Spirituals, Camp Meeting, and later Bluegrass
Crummy Hymn More recent, but not CCM
The class went more weeks, but I didn't post about those.
Related: I also wrote later about festival worship a few times.
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