Sing Praise For Faithful Women From Scripture And Throughout History
Sing Praise for Faithful Women from Scripture and Throughout History, is a collection of forty-two hymn texts and recommended tunes by hymn writer Edith Sinclair Downing. The texts recall not only the women of the Bible, but also important women who have struggled for equality and justice throughout history — Joan of Arc, Perpetua, Harriet Tubman, Dorothy Day, Maggie Kuhn, and Corretta Scott King.
Edith Sinclair Downing earned a masters degrees in religious education at The University of Chicago and in theological studies with a major in worship from Trinity Lutheran Seminary. She has been an active church musician, directing choirs and serving as organist. She did not begin writing hymns until her late sixties and has gone on to publish several collections with major publishers of hymns as well as contributing texts to numerous hymnals. Now in her mid-eighties, Edith continues to write hymns and play the organ in her church. She is a distinguished member of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada.
Edith Sinclair Downing is the author of Sing Praise for Faithful Women from Scripture and Throughout History: A Collection of Hymns by Edith Sinclair Downing. Her photo, biography, contact information and links to additional songs and choral music are available on the Discipleship Ministries website.
All hymns are Copyright © 2007 Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc. Permission to copy thehymns for use in a church bulletin, etc., must be obtained from Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc. unless the church has a license from CCLI, OneLicense.net, or LicenSing.
- A Ray of Hope for Those Oppressed (Sojourner Truth)
- Come, Let Us Honor Esther
- Come, Sing the Joy of Miriam
- Could It Be that God Remembered (Sarah)
- For Rosa Parks, Sing Praises
- For This Young Woman's Selfless Gift (Etty Hillesum)
- Hail Hannah, Full of Patience
- Hear Now the Voice of Deborah
- I Dared to Go to Simon's House
- Julia Ward Howe, You Helped Our World's Great Need
- Lament for Jephthah's Daughter
- Let Us Remember Hagar
- Mysterious Mary Magdalene
- Perpetua, the Martyr
- Praise God for Joan of Arc
- Praise Rebecca, Our Foremother
- Reflect Upon Naomi's Plight
- Remember Faithful Rahab
- Remembering Coretta King
- Revere Now Leah, Steadfast One
- Sing Praise for Hebrew Midwives
- Sing Praise for Susan Anthony
- Sing We Now of Eve, First Woman
- Uplifter of the Poor, Disciple Dorothy Day
- We Honor Harriet Tubman
- We Mourn for Daughter Dinah
- We Now Remember Michal
- We Praise the Faithful Widow
- We Remember Faithful Anna
- We Remember Mary
- We Sing of Gomer, Wanton One
- We Sing of Loyal Lydia
- We Sing of Ruth, the Faithful
- We Sing Our Praise of Hildegard
- We Sing to Honor Rachel's Gift (Rachel Corrie, martyr for peace, 1979-2003)
- When Faithful King Josiah (Huldah)
- When Jesus, Worn from Doing Good
- When Mary Hears the Angel's News
- When She Heard Jesus Was to Come
- With Courage Tamar Acted
- With Grateful Hearts for Maggie Kuhn
- With Joy We Honor Abigail
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