Martin Rinkart was a German Lutheran pastor and hymn writer, born in 1586 in Eilenburg, Saxony. He lived during one of Europe’s hardest times, the Thirty Years’ War, when famine, disease, and violence ...
One of my favorite Thanksgiving hymns is “Now thank we all our God.” I like it because of its sentiment; I like it because I can follow the tenor line; but mostly I like it because of the compelling ...
(RNS) — “Now thank we all our God with heart and hands and voices. Who wondrous things hath done, in whom His world rejoices.” Thanksgiving is not a Christian holy day, but a holiday in American civil ...