Wednesday, January 9, 2008

An Iraqi hymn, please

Zion has been sponsoring a family from Iraq. Last week I asked them about Iraqi songs. They had fled the country as light as possible and had no music.

Today I called a large music distributor, Pepper. They had never had a request for that before. I called my friendly Hymn Society, headquartered in Boston. They had never thought of that before, but would look into it. Dr. Daw himself, composer of several well known anthems and director of the Hymn Society, responded with several google lines to get me to at least a little information.

There are Christian churches in Iraq.

I'm going to talk to the Iraqi family again and pursue the internet sites. I'm feeling feisty, somehow, about this. Wasn't it Mennonite Central Committee which had the slogan: if the Christians of the world would just agree to not kill each other....

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