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The Russel M. Nelson Approach to inspired writing.
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Previous Hymn Reviews
Hymn #s 97 & 98 - “2 Rope-Ladder Hymns to Help You Escape the Abyss”
Hymn #95 - “My Least Favorite Thanksgiving Hymn & An Announcement”
Hymn #94 - How a Hymn Turns Us Into God’s Glutinous Breakfast Cereal
Hymn #88 - A Little ‘Extra Crunchy’ in My Creamy Hymn Peanut Butter”
Hymn #85 - The Good Shepherd Sings This Hymn To Soothe and Empower Us
Hymn #77 - How a Few Small Tweaks can Take a Hymn Up a Notch
Hymn #61 - Sometimes I Wish We Were More Like the Protestants
Hymn #60 - “Glory, Glory, Hallelujah, Teacher Hit Me With a Ruler”
Hymn #57 - Do I Dare Offer Suggestions to a Tabernacle Organist?
Hymn #55 - 2 Small changes that Transform Hymn #55 from Good to Great
Hymn #52 - How a Horde of Wild Chilean Mormons Taught Me to Sing
Hymn #47 - Professor Kirchenbank and Professor Bradshaw go Head to Head
Hymn #41 - Joseph Smith’s Right-Hand Man Writes Eye Witness Zion Hymn
Hymn #40 - How to Get Those Old Tired Basses to Wake Up and Move
Hymn #39 - “These aren’t the notes you’re looking for…” — Obey-Wan Composey
Hymn #38 - Not the Chicken Dance, More Like the Gathering Hen’s “Whistle While You Work”
Hymn #30 - The Hans Zimmer Technique for Drawing On the Deepest Emotions with Music
Hymn #29 - A prophetic lullaby, a soothing balm before death
Hymn #27 - Vikings Storm the Chapel and Raid Sacrament Meeting
Hymn #22 - Finding an error in your teacher’s work…what to do?
Hymn #20 - A U.S. Senator leads us in knocking on heaven’s door
Hymn #19 - How a funeral dirge became a peppy prophet praiser
Hymn #18 - 100th anniversary of the 1st Vision, what about the 200th?
Hymn #16 - An interview with eminent professor of hymnology, Herr Daric Kirchenbank
Hymn #14 - How ‘mind’ and ‘heart’ combine to make a great hymn
Hymn #13 - Asking a beloved Apostle to change his text, just a bit
Hymn #11 - When a hymn gets the emPHAsis on the wrong syLLAble
Hymn #7 - Hitting the high point in the first bar, does that work?
Hymn #6 - Phelps’s fantastic method for coming up with a new hymn text
Hymn #4 - This composer was friends with the most hated composer of the 20th century
Hymn #2 - How rhythmic displacement keeps the ‘Spirit of God’ interesting