... examined texts and tunes of great hymns, written through the centuries, and attempted to uncover what it was that made some hymns enduring, so uplifting, so inspiring to the worshiper. We spent more time than usual celebrating the great hymnody of Ralph Vaughan Williams, the brilliant English musicologist who gave us, among other things, a stirring rendition of "For All the Saints," a hymn which, incidentally, paints a graphic picture of a pilgrimage into the King’s great city for a splendid banquet with ...
2. It Isn’t How the Journey Starts, It Is How It Ends
Matthew 21:23-32
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Michael A. Sherer
... but rather quietly, unspectacularly, Lewis came into the Christian camp. We know the rest of the story: He became a great intellectual apologist for Christianity, writing and speaking to confound the critics of the Faith. He was the reverse of Ralph Vaughan Williams, taking on the critics of the Christian faith in Britain in a series of radio broadcasts which became enormously popular among a population growing steadily more indifferent to Christ. A similar story can be told of Malcolm Muggeridge, a British ...
