Moved by the gospel, let us move

Moved by the gospel, let us move. Ruth C. Duck* (1947- ). This hymn was written on the theme of the arts in worship, and addressed at the end to the ‘Great Artist’. Before that it had celebrated work with ‘sound and colour, stone and wood’ used to produce ‘the shape of holiness.’ It was written at the request of the Canadian-born sculptor and artist Janet Pearson Roth (living, like Duck, in Evanston, Illinois), and published in Duck’s Dancing in the Universe (1992). It has been set to the 18th-century German tune ELLACOMBE in the Scottish CH4 and to BETHLEHEM by Gottfried Wilhelm Fink in...