After 131 posts, it is time to explain the name of this blog….

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The year I was born, pastor and hymn writer Herbert Brokering penned the lyrics to “Earth and All Stars.”  When I was seventeen I was able to meet Brokering when he led a workshop for the Lutheran youth of Marion County Ohio.  It was here I first heard this hymn which had been set to music four years after Brokering wrote the lyrics.

It is a thoroughly contemporary piece celebrating God’s active work in creation and human endeavor.  It is also a hymn I rather like, which surprises many who know me as someone who enjoys Bach more than the likes of contemporary hymnody.  (Of course, I did not escape Bach that weekend either.)

But why name my blog for this hymn? Read more