New works now available:
"Breath of God," and "God of Music, Guide our Song," by composer Daniel Kantor.

"God of Music, Guide Our Song," a new setting from Mennonite composer Lee Dengler.


Hymn collections
A Greener Place to Grow: 50 More Hymn Texts, a new collection of original texts set to fresh and traditional tunes.  Available directly from GIA or from The Hymn Society's Book Service.

Woven Into Harmony,  available from GIA Publications, Inc. and The Hymn Society's Book Service.  This single-author collection includes 50 original texts, set to traditional and newly-composed tunes.

Choral octavos
"Away in a Manger," by composer Blake Henson, features a fresh take on the familiar carol with a beautiful and deceptively simple tune.

"Bread of Life, Cup of Joy," a collaboration with Mennonite composer Lee Dengler.

"Christ, the Victorious," by composer Norah Duncan IV, part of GIA's African American Church Music Series.

"Did You Hear the Song?" Setting of "I Have No Room" by Mennonite composer Lee Dengler.  Follow the link and click "Closer Look" for sample pages and a full recording.

"God, grant this suffering soul release," by composer David Haas.  Text is featured in Haas' collection, A Changed Heart, as well as the prayer book and recording of the same name. (Note that the version of the text set is "God, grant your faithful servant peace," appropriate for funerals or memorials.)

"What Comfort Can Our Worship Bring,"  by composer Blake Henson

Inclusions in hymnals, supplements and collections
Psalms for All Seasons: A Complete Psalter for Worship, Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, Faith Alive Christian Resources, and Brazos Press, 2012
    Psalm 12 A: "Lying lips," set to CAPTIVITY/KAS DZIEDAJA
    Psalm 39 A: "When I sought silence," set to SILENTIUM by Randall Sensmeier
    Psalm 122 A: "Rejoice, rejoice, come sing with me," set to FOREST GREEN
    Psalm 130 G: "For You, my God, I wait," set to SPRINGTIME by David Ward

Worship: Fourth Edition,
GIA Publications, 2011
    Fourteen texts

Gather: Third Edition,
GIA Publications, 2011
    "Coming together for wine and for bread," set to BLACKHAWK LANE by David Haas

Total Praise,
hymnal of the National Baptist Convention, USA, 2011
    "The Church of Christ cannot be bound," set to MCKEE

Celebrating Grace, Mercer University Press, 2010
    "The Church of Christ cannot be bound," set to AZMON

A Sampler of Hymns and Songs for Worship, Presbyterian Hymnal Project, 2011
    "What is the world like," set to NEW WORLD by Sally Ann Morris

Assembled for Song: An Anthology of New Hymns, GIA Publications, 2011
    "She moves where she wishes," set to HARVEST SONG by Ronald F. Krisman
    "The Church of Christ cannot be bound," set to WILKERS by Sally Ann Morris

Worship & Song,
United Methodist hymnal supplement, Abingdon Press
    "Beath of God, Breath of Peace," set to PATTERNS by Sally Ann Morris

New Wine in Old Wineskins, Volume 2: A Contemporary Congregational Song Supplement, edited by Dr. James Abbington
    "At the pulpit, font, and table," set to LAUDA ANIMA
    "Christ is for losers," set to DREAM ANGUS
    "God, grant this suffering soul release," set to O WALY WALY
    "Jesus said to pray, 'Our Father,'" set to DINIWEIDRWYDD
    "The church of Christ cannot be bound," set to MCKEE
    "What comfort can our worship bring," set to MARTYRDOM
    "When my soul is sore and troubled/Cuando mi alma està turbada," set to PERILYPOS PSYCHE (Spanish translation and tune by Ronald F. Krisman)  

Sally Ann Morris, ...To Sing the Artist's Praise..., GIA Publications, Inc., includes seven Tice texts with tunes by Morris:
    "Open your eyes to the image of God," set to WENDY
    "An echo of the voice of God," set to WADA SONG
    "The Church of Christ cannot be bound," set to WILKERS
    "Coming together for wine and for breatd," set to BANQUET
    "Love! All holy," set to DONNA MARIE
    "Breath of God, Breath of Peace (The Breath, the Word, the Voice)" set to PATTERNS
    "What is the world like?" set to NEW WORLD (this hymn was premiered at the Hymn Society         Annual Conference in July 2009, Northfield, MN)

Singing the New Testament,The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and Faith Alive Christian Resources, 2008
    "Two People Came to Church to Pray," set to MAPLE AVENUE by Richard L.
        Van Oss
    "A Traveler Unknown to Me," set to SUSSEX CAROL
    "Faithful Living," set to TEBBEN by Timothy Hoekman

More Voices, The United Church of Canada, 2007
    "Breath of God, Breath of Peace," set to EMMANUEL COLLEGE, by Fred Kimball Graham

Other works of interest
"A New Song: What New Endeavors," hymn and brief commentary, featured in CrossAccent: Journal of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, Volume 19, Number 1, 2011, page 33.

Hymn Festival script and commentary: "Giving life to the Word: Hymns on parables,"  in
The Hymn, the journal of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, Spring 2010 (includes text "What is the world like" with Sally Ann Morris' tune NEW WORLD)

Two prayers in Take Our Moments and Our Days: An Anabaptist Prayer Book, Advent Through Pentecost, 2007

Master's Thesis, Who do You Sing that I Am? The Life of Jesus in 20th-century Mennonite Hymnals: A Case Study in the use of Hymnody for Theological Research, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, 2007

Academic article: “Singing shapes communion: the progression of Eucharistic theology in 20th-century Mennonite hymnals,” Conrad Grebel Review, Fall, 2006.  (Full text available online.)  Article noted in The Hymn, David W. Music, "Hymns in Periodical Literature," Summer 2007

Macalester Plymouth United Church Hymn Writing Contest, 2005 winner:
    "The Church of Christ Cannot be Bound"


Choral arrangement, “Morning Has Broken,” text by Eleanor Farjeon, tune BUNNESAN, SSATB with two trumpets, API Music, 2002