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For everyone born Global songs for an emerging church Jörge Lockward and Christopher Heckert, eds., Carlton R, Young, music consultant. New York: The General Board of Global Ministries, 2008. 99 pp. ISBN 978-1-933663-26-5, US $12.95; accompanying CD ISBN 978-1-933663-25-8, US $12.95.
This title raises two questions - first, what constitutes a "global song," and second, what is an "emerging church"? The editors have taken an appropriately expansive approach to the first question - they include pieces from Latin America, Africa, Asia, New Zealand two texts by Shirley Erena Murray, FHS, with tunes from the US and Sweden), and the United States. Initially this reviewer questioned the inclusion of American pop-ballad style pieces in this type of book; I was won over, however, by the realization that the texts of those songs continue the global emphasis. In Laurie Zelman and Mark Miller's "Welcome,"...