All Things Bright and Beautiful is irritating and repetitive – these hymns are much more uplifting
Organist Lord Lisvane dreads the song being picked at weddings and I don’t blame him. Try these soul-searching alternatives instead
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Organist Lord Lisvane dreads the song being picked at weddings and I don’t blame him. Try these soul-searching alternatives instead
The tradition of hymnody deserves rediscovery in a secular age
The former Archbishop of Canterbury said the great classics have fallen out of common memory, even though people are looking for something to ‘nourish the spirit’
CRAIG BROWN: A few years ago, Lord Lisvane led the charge against John Bercow. Now he has pointed his guns at the well-loved hymn All Things Bright And Beautiful.
The old favourite, beloved of school assemblies, weddings and church services, should have been left in the Victorian era, Lord Lisvane says in a letter to The Times