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Common Hymnal

Common Hymnal is an online platform that has been set up as an outlet for creatives on the outermost margins of the Christian faith. One of the consequences of the dramatic shifts in culture in recent years is the displacement of a generation of gifted artists and thought leaders who are writing songs and telling stories that do not fit the religious industrial complex. In making a home for these people, Common Hymnal has been able to curate a catalog that centers life, justice and spirituality; that embraces both praise and protest; that treasures healing, restitution and reparation; that has the potential to both comfort the disheartened and embolden the courageous.

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"You're not what happened; you're more than the shame you were recklessly given."

https://youtu.be/0BCbJssfFJo

3 years ago | [YT] | 9

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Common Hymnal

We are in a precarious time in American history. Now, more than ever, we cannot engage in apathy, which leads to an inability to feel for those in our lives who are hurting. This song is a prayer that, in the most intense of times, when our attention is stretched thin, that we do not miss the vital opportunities to love the people around us well.
https://youtu.be/LIYvUD0bXP4

4 years ago | [YT] | 1

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There is a time and place for everything (Ecclesiastes 3), and the internet sure has provided us with a wide open landscape for 'everything.' But that beautiful poem goes on to say that there are contrasting seasons in life for diverse experience and expression.

These past four years have provided an abundance of time for grieved white people to express their opinions. And we have heard these loud and clear. In all humility, we are hoping for a little space for some of us to contemplate our experience, and sing our song.

Common Hymnal shares an empathy and a solidarity with those whose struggle has been unseen and unheard by the powerful because of a historic and long held system of levers and pulleys that have allowed privileged people to sustain power and live by a totally different set of rules, which we saw yesterday when we watched law enforcement taking selfies with armed and violent activists.

We would love for @CommonHymnal to be a safe space for the disenfranchised and the hurting to be able to find a little support, and to be able to call out to God for relief from their very real experience of injustice in this world.

Let's sing this song together today. #TheMedicine
https://youtu.be/UfYMkCwnLfE

4 years ago | [YT] | 20

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In recent times, Christianity has excelled in the practice of praise, but not been exercising the muscle of protest much. Yet, there are many issues in our broken world that need addressing. Therefore, our building of a library that contextualizes our worship in the issues ranging from racism to sexual abuse to excessive capitalism to gender equality to gun violence to extreme poverty to the dignity of the LGBT community to the environment to mental illness to propaganda to war to capital punishment, and the list goes on.

We have our work cut out for us, but the starting point is popularizing the slogan: praise and protest. https://youtu.be/2pL9rSL49lo

4 years ago | [YT] | 3

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Common Hymnal

We're high-fiving everyone (virtually) tomorrow at our Cyber Soiree. Sunday 4pm CST, YouTube Live. Come hang!