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   The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords
is when the soul into the lines accords.
George Herbert, "A True Hymn"

 
 

Selah has a rapidly growing online database of its hymns. Find just what you need for any of your worship services. Visit our hymn search page now!

2009's hymn collections include hymns on the parables of Jesus in And Jesus Said: Parables in Song and Al Fedak's newest collection of hymn tunes God of the Future.

Two impressive anthologies of Richard Leach's and Rae Whitney's hymn texts are Tuned for Your Sake: Hymns 1987-2007 by Richard Leach and Under the Fig Tree: More Hymns and a Few Poems by Rae E. Whitney.

Hear the Angels Sing is a collection of hymns devoted to the work of those heavenly beings we know so little about but are such a great part of today's culture. A new collaboration between poet Richard Leach and composer David Ashley White is New Harmony: A Harp of Thousand Strings.

Selah has been at the cutting edge of contemporary hymnody since our first publication in 1989, and we still are.

Download the first hymnal published this millennium, available only online, Selah's Hymnal Supplement 2000, already downloaded over twenty thousand times.

A good primer on the history of Christian hymnody up to the present is the newly revised edition of Erik Routley's A Panorama of Christian Hymnody, edited and expanded by Paul A. Richardson. (And Selah is well-represented in the texts published in this collection.)

Selah's congregational song collections
And Jesus Said: Parables in Song (2009), hymns on the parables of Jesus
Hear the Angels Sing
(2005)
Selah Psalter
Shepherd Songs, a collection of new hymns on Christ the Good Shepherd by today's finest authors and composers.
Sing Justice, Do Justice
To God with Love
Sing to Our God New Songs of Rejoicing
(2000)
New Songs of Rejoicing (1994)
Songs of Rejoicing: Hymns for Worship, Meditation & Praise (1989)

We're proud to publish the hymn collections of

Patricia Clark

Edith Downing

Rusty Edwards

Alfred V. Fedak

Gracia Grindal

Roy Hopp

Richard Leach

Herbert O'Driscoll

Joy F. Patterson

Thomas Pavlechko

James Quinn sj

David A. Robb

William P. Rowan

Bill Wallace

David Ashley White

Rae E. Whitney

Selah's very first publication was the well-received hymnal supplement, Songs of Rejoicing: Hymns for Worship, Meditation & Praise, in 1989, followed by our next supplement New Songs of Rejoicing in 1994, and we continue publishing the best contemporary hymns being written today, including our latest supplement Sing to Our God New Songs of Rejoicing, published in 2000. Our publications include these three supplements, a children's hymnal, To God with Love, and numerous individual author and composer collections.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two hymns that are appropriate for worship services in light of the tragedies that hit the U.S. September 11, 2001, are available for free use and use without prior permission. "Let Justice Roll on Earth" and "God, You See Your Loved Creation" may be downloaded as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file. To download the file, click and hold on this link to download the small (84k) PDF file. It should take less than a minute to download these files with a normal dial-up connection. Carl Daw (through Hope Publishing) has also made available a newly written hymn, and it is available in two settings by David Ashley White in PDF form through this link. If you have problems doing this, Selah will e-mail the PDF files by return e-mail.

Selah's has published Sing Justice! Do Justice!, a powerful new collection of 25 hymns chosen from the submissions to the hymn search for hymns on the theme of justice sponsored by The Hymn Society and Alternatives for Simple Living.

Licensing Selah's hymns for use in your church is generally quite simple and inexpensive, so don't let that stop you from showing your church that hymnody is a living art and craft. Selah participates in the CCLI, LicenSing, and OneLicense.net licensing programs, and if your church subscribes to any of these programs, all of Selah's hymns may be reported directly to either organization.

If you want to delve into all the issues surrounding congregational singing, there's no better resource than Hymnology Annual, a journal devoted to the study of hymnody and song used in worship.

 

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