Too Warlike? and other music links

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• Are Our Hymns Too Warlike? -- "...the warfare imagery is derived not from our hymnbooks but from our Bibles."
• Classic A Cappella Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs -- "Free MP3s of the Greenville Church of South Carolina singing classic a cappella hymns, professionally recorded..."
• Edward R Hale -- "The LORD would give him the tune first, then the words."
• Lister Cleavant Derricks -- "He seemed to be pleased enough that his music had found a wide acceptance as payment enough."
• Poetry in the notes -- "These songs tell stories and they have deep meanings."
• It’s time to re-write pro-war hymns -- "Brian McLaren...has rewritten Onward, Christian Soldiers, which he said reflects a disturbing pro-war theology."
• The Verses Project -- "These songs are taken word for word from the ESV Bible translation and set to music to help you memorize and meditate on scripture in a new way."
• What a Friend We Have in Jesus -- "The hymn was penned in 1857 by Joseph Scriven, of Canada, for his widowed mother, Jane Medlicott Scriven of Ireland (she was 70 at the time)."