Author: janna

This song and video are dedicated to my sister, Dr. Anne Morton, a powerful, tenacious environmental activist for many years. All the Earth is sacred; sacred is Her ground; mountains, trees, and flowers everywhere abound.Her beauty all around is still found. Earth calls out for nurture; Earth calls out for care;we will work to save […]

You probably don’t need reminding that our world is in deep need of healing. Even before the global pandemic, lives have been destroyed by racism and white supremacy, global warming, gun violence, patriarchy with accompanying misogyny, sexism, heterosexism, and sexual violence. Scientists have discovered that the COVID-19 pandemic may be one of the results of […]

Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, invited me to write a hymn celebrating Larry E. Schultz on the occasion of his 20th anniversary as minister of music of the church. I was delighted to write this hymn, along with notes on the text and tunes and a tribute to Larry, my collaborator and […]

Growing up in a Baptist church Sunday school and children’s choir, I learned to sing “Praise Him, Praise Him, All You Little Children.” In “big church” I heard and learned “Praise Him! Praise Him!” and many more hymns praising “Him.” I never heard a hymn praising “Her.” Most hymns sung in any denomination today don’t […]

Many years ago commentator Bill Moyers wrote, “The news is not good these days. What we need is what the ancient Israelites called Hokmah (“Wisdom”), the capacity to see, to feel and then to act as if the future depended on us.” The news is even worse now. And the future of our world does depend […]