Hymns of Comfort
There is no life untouched by grief or loss
of one kind or another. And the gospel offers comfort for all.
Orson Scott Card
Hymns
of Thanksgiving
Even though a hymn of thanksgiving
— all hymns, in fact — should strive for universality,
it is probably impossible to write a hymn that will not cause
someone in the congregation to feel pain or at least irony while
singing it.
By
Orson Scott Card
Practical Hymns
We owe it to the Lord, our fellow
saints, and our own self-respect to make sure that the hymns we
create not only uplift and inspire, but also fulfill the practical
requirements of our meetings.
By Orson Scott Card
Christmas Hymns
I believe that it's a wonderful
thing when a Christian holiday is so deeply embedded in the surrounding
culture that it drives retail sales for the whole year and calls
forth all kinds of positive feelings and attitudes and ideas.
By Orson Scott Card
Hymns of Atonement
The very familiarity that comes
from repetition of a small set of hymns is part of the comfort
and peace that should be in our hearts as we partake of the sacrament.
By
Orson Scott Card
Hymns
for Special Groups
Part of the reason kids don't learn
to play piano is they see no immediate reward for it.
By Orson Scott Card
Topical
Hymns
You’d think that with so many
hymns in the hymnbook, every aspect of the gospel would have at
least one hymn about it. But some gospel subjects are hard to
write a convincing hymn about.
By
Orson Scott Card
Humor
and Irony
I believe that I can safely say
that there will never be an intentionally funny hymn in our hymnbook.
By
Orson Scott Card
Intricacy
and Cleverness
Orson
Scott Card continues his series on writing hymns by sharing some
he wrote--that he said were too clever and had to be changed.
By
Orson Scott Card
Hymns
about Joseph Smith
As we come up on the bicentennial
of Joseph Smith’s birth, we find only two hymns about Joseph
Smith among those we regularly sing in church.
By
Orson Scott
