Our back-to-school discount is still on at Word & Song, good for new paid and upgraded subscriptions as well as gifts (for the students, teachers, homeschoolers, and just about anyone who might enjoy our magazine). Paid Subscribers see special gift link at the bottom of this post. I’ve written of Alfred Tennyson here at Word and Song, and of his ex…

Our back-to-school discount is still on at Word & Song, good for new paid and upgraded subscriptions as well as gifts (for the students, teachers, homeschoolers, and just about anyone who might like our magazine). Fourteen years before the author of our Hymn of the Week, the Reverend John Ernest Bode, penned this ballad of friendship and service to…

Our back-to-school discount is still on at Word & Song, good for new paid and upgraded subscriptions as well as gifts (for the students, teachers, homeschoolers, and just about anyone who might like our magazine). Today we are circling back to a composer whose work, I feel certain, is known to every reader of Sometimes a Song, if only for a single …

Our back-to-school discount is still on at Word & Song, good for new paid and upgraded subscriptions as well as gifts (for the students, teachers, homeschoolers, and just about anyone who might enjoy our magazine). Our Word of the Week is fall, and I think that it warrants some meditation on the rise and the fall of the human soul. “Pride goeth bef…

Our back-to-school discount is still on at Word & Song, good for new paid and upgraded subscriptions as well as gifts (for the students, teachers, homeschoolers, and just about anyone who might like our magazine). I am typing these words early in the evening, in the northern hemisphere, just after fall has arrived and the days have begun to grow sh…

Sometimes a Song is worth hearing again, and our Word of the Week brought back to me a truly beautiful song. And don’t forget that our back-to-school discount is still on at Word & Song, good for new paid and upgraded subscriptions as well as gifts (for the students, teachers, homeschoolers, and just about anyone who might like our magazine). Anyon…

Our Word of the Week, see, could lead us in any number of directions for hymns, but we’ve chosen for the Hymn of the Week one that everybody knows — but sometimes a thing becomes so familiar, we don’t really see it anymore, or we don’t attend to it. Robins are thrushes, and all the world over, the thrushes are the most brilliant singers, and yet ho…

Sometimes a Song is the result of a strange mix of ethnic backgrounds and musical styles. For such a mix, today’s “Harbor Lights” takes the prize. The composer of the lyrics was Jimmy Kennedy, a man from Northern Ireland, and the composer of the tune was Wilhelm Grosz, a Jewish refugee from Austria at the time of the Anschluss, the Nazi take-over o…