New Inclusive Hymnbook Released!

Earth Transformed with Music! Inclusive Songs for Worship has just been released! It’s been exciting to collaborate with composer Larry E. Schultz on our third collection of inclusive hymns.

The title of this new collection, Earth Transformed with Music! Inclusive Songs for Worship, expresses our deep belief in the power of music to transform people and all creation. Music has great power to transform our world. Music stirs our spirits and embeds words in our memories. Songs with inclusive lyrics contribute to an expansive theology and an ethic of equality and justice in human relationships.

These inclusive songs will help your worship catch up with your theology. You may have had difficulty finding hymns that reflect your beliefs about peacemaking, gender equality, racial equality, economic justice, and the sacred worth of all people.

The songs in this collection name Deity as female and male and more to support the foundational biblical truth that all people are created equally in the divine image (Genesis 1:27). Earth Transformed with Music! Inclusive Songs for Worship will instill belief in the sacredness of all people and all creation. The predominant themes of gender equality, racial equality, marriage equality, economic justice, care of creation, and peacemaking flow from the prophetic tradition in Scripture. This collection also includes songs for comfort, healing, celebration, and thanksgiving.

Earth Transformed with Music! includes all new songs, most to widely-known tunes and some to new tunes. Many of the songs are appropriate for interfaith settings. A special feature of this new collection is the inclusion of multigenerational short songs for various parts of worship services, such as invocations and benedictions.

Here is one of the fresh, lovely new tunes that Larry created for one of the short songs of invocation in this collection, “Sister-Brother Spirit, Within Us and Above,” along with the lyrics:

Sister-Brother Spirit, within us and above,

show us all Your peaceful way to partnership and love;

Sister-Brother Spirit, empower us today;

stir in us new visions of justice, we pray.

This new song collection comes to you with the invitation to join in transforming earth through singing inclusive songs that give birth to justice and peace. Let your worship catch up with your theology!