God made from one blood all the families of earth
God made from one blood all the families of earth. Thomas Troeger* (1945-2022).
From Troeger’s New Hymns for the Church: to make our prayer and music one (1992), reprinted in Borrowed Light (1994). It was commissioned by Russell E. Schulz-Widmar*, who was compiling a hymnal for colleges and universities. Schulz-Widmar asked for a hymn that would ‘include many kinds of family rather than the nuclear’, a hymn that would be ‘candid about family life’ (New Hymns for the Church, p. 63).
It is a hymn in five stanzas, celebrating ‘the intimate networks on whom we depend’, but also acknowledging, with an unsentimental eye, the families which are guilty of ‘mistreating their members and bruising...
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