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Robert Carlton Savage

1914 - 1987 Person Name: Roberto C. Savage Scripture: John 12:20-32 Translator of "He decidido seguir a Cristo" in Celebremos Su Gloria Robert Carlson Savage was born in Wisconsin in 1914. He served as a missionary in Colombia and then worked 24 years for HCJB radio in Quito, Ecuador. He edited and compiled several songbooks and hymnals, including Himnos d Fe y Alabanza in 1966. Dianne Shapiro from Celebremos su Gloria (Colombia/Illinois: Libros Alianza/Celebration), 1992

Norman O. Forness

Scripture: John 12:26 Author of "Rise Up, O Saints of God!" in The Worshiping Church

Timothy Dudley-Smith

b. 1926 Person Name: Timothy Dudley-Smith (1926-) Scripture: John 12:20-36 Author of "He Comes to Us As One Unknown" in Common Praise (1998) Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church positions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman

William H. Walter

1825 - 1893 Scripture: John 12:26 Composer of "FESTAL SONG" in The Worshiping Church

Pia Moriarty

b. 1948 Person Name: Pia Moriarty, b. 1948 Scripture: John 12:24 Author of "Come to the Feast (Ven al Banquete)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

Jaime Cortez

b. 1963 Person Name: Jaime Cortez, b. 1963 Scripture: John 12:24 Author of "Come to the Feast (Ven al Banquete)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

Thomas H. Troeger

1945 - 2022 Person Name: Thomas H. Troeger (b. 1945) Scripture: John 12:24 Author of "May the Church at prayer recall" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) Thomas Troeger (1945-2022), professor of Christian communication at Yale Divinity school, was a well known preacher, poet, and musician. He was a fellow of Silliman College, held a B.A. from Yale University; B.D. Colgate Rochester Divinity School; S.T. D. Dickinson College, and was awarded an honorary D.D. from Virginia Theological Seminary. He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1970 and the Episcopal Church in 1999, and remained dually aligned with both traditions. Troerger led conferences and lectures in worship and preaching throughout North America, as well as in Denmark, Holland, Australia, Japan, and Africa. He served as national chaplain to the American Guild of Organists, and for at least three years he hosted the Season of Worship broadcast for Cokesbury. He was president of the Academy of Homiletics as well as Societas Homiletica. He had, as of 2009, written 22 books in the areas of preaching, poetry, hymnody, and worship. Many of his hymn texts are found in New Hymns for the Lectionary (Oxford, 1992), and God, You Made All Things for Singing (Oxford, 2009). Laura de Jong

Carl P. Daw Jr.

b. 1944 Person Name: Carl P. Daw, Jr. (b. 1944) Scripture: John 12:20-22 Author of "Sing of Andrew, John's disciple" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) Carl P. Daw, Jr. (b. Louisville, KY, 1944) is the son of a Baptist minister. He holds a PhD degree in English (University of Virginia) and taught English from 1970-1979 at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. As an Episcopal priest (MDiv, 1981, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennesee) he served several congregations in Virginia, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. From 1996-2009 he served as the Executive Director of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. Carl Daw began to write hymns as a consultant member of the Text committee for The Hymnal 1982, and his many texts often appeared first in several small collections, including A Year of Grace: Hymns for the Church Year (1990); To Sing God’s Praise (1992), New Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1996), Gathered for Worship (2006). Other publications include A Hymntune Psalter (2 volumes, 1988-1989) and Breaking the Word: Essays on the Liturgical Dimensions of Preaching (1994, for which he served as editor and contributed two essays. In 2002 a collection of 25 of his hymns in Japanese was published by the United Church of Christ in Japan. He wrote Glory to God: A Companion (2016) for the 2013 hymnal of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Emily Brink

John W. Wayland

Person Name: J. W. Wayland Scripture: John 12:21 Author of "We Would See Jesus" in Church Hymnal, Mennonite

Graham Maule

1958 - 2019 Person Name: Graham Maule (b. 1958) Scripture: John 12:27-33 Author of "Ride on, ride on, the time is right" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)