Hymn Database Sees Spike as Christians Worship at Home in 2020
In 2020, we celebrated holidays at home amid the COVID-19 pandemic. We worked at home, attended school at home, even attended worship services at home.
Many Christians also turned to hymns for comfort at home, according to Hymnary.org.
Users of the online database doubled as the novel coronavirus closed many church buildings this spring, and the website now is nearing 40 million page views for 2020, its highest ever.
I ordered and received a copy of the 1948 Broadman Baptist hymnal. No NIV, no Darlene Zcscech, no CCM, just as it was before , even before the Gaithers.
I was on the site a week or so ago helping my wife track down something about a particular hymn. The site is run by Calvin University, formerly Calvin College, which went liberal with its parent denomination, the CRC, decades ago. However, another resource of theirs I've found usefully is the Christian Classic Etheral Library at something like ccel.org. It would be good if they would read some of what they post & take it to heart, but otherwise seemed enamored by new fangled concepts. This was the college in which the student body president is part of the LGBT community.
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