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John L. Bell
b. 1949 Meter: 8.8.8 with alleluias Author of "Jesus is risen from the grave" 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
John L. Bell
G. K. A. Bell
1883 - 1958 Person Name: G. K. A. Bell, 1883-1958 Meter: 8.8.8 with alleluias Author of "Christ is the King!" in The Book of Praise George Kennedy Allen Bell was born in 1883. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was chaplain to the archbishop of Canterbury in 1914, was appointed as Dean of Canterbury in 1924 and became the Anglican bishop at Chichester in 1929. He was interested in ecumenism and friendship between the Anglican Church and churches in other countries and was instrumental in starting the World Council of Churches. He was also interested in religious drama and the integration of arts in the church.
Dianne Shapiro, from Lambeth Palace Library archives
G. K. A. Bell
Margaret Barclay
b. 1923 Meter: 8.8.8 with alleluias Translator (Stanzas 1, 2, 4-6) of "All Praise to God in Highest Heaven" in The Worshipbook Date of birth verified by letter from The Pilgrim Press to Jean Woodward Steele, 4 January, 1967.
DNAH Archives
Margaret Barclay
Vigleik E. Boe
1872 - 1953 Person Name: Vigleik E. Boe, 1872-1953 Meter: 8.8.8 with alleluias Reviser of "Ended His Strife, the Battle Done" in Ambassador Hymnal
Vigleik E. Boe
