Songs for a Gospel People

Songs for a Gospel People (Winfield, BC: Wood Lake Books, 1987). Songs for a Gospel People was a collection issued as a supplement to The Hymn Book (1971) of the Anglican and United Churches of Canada, under the authority of two annual conferences (Alberta and British Columbia) of the UCC. It was prepared by a team directed by R. Gerald Hobbs*, professor of church history and music at Vancouver School of Theology; with Darryl Nixon*, as music editor; and with the collaboration of publisher Ralph Milton. From its conception the book had a series of clearly-defined objectives in text, music and format, which made it different from the traditional model of Canadian Anglican and United Church...

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