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The collections on this page contain texts and tunes by Larry E. Schultz. Some of the individual pieces from the collections are available for download from this site. 

Collaborations

Inclusive Songs from the Heart of Gospel

Jann Aldredge-Clanton | Larry E. Schultz |​ McKenzie Brown
​Available from JannAldredgeClanton.com or Amazon
​This collection of 74 songs celebrates the sacredness of all races, genders, people and creation. The divine imageries expressed in the songs include female, male, nonbinary, and more to support the foundational biblical truth that all people are equally valued. The new texts are set to familiar gospel tunes, hymn tunes as well as newly-composed tunes and arrangements. 
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Inclusive Songs for Resistance & Social Action

Jann Aldredge-Clanton | Larry E. Schultz
​Available from JannAldredgeClanton.com or Amazon
​This collection of 67 songs contributes to gender, racial, economic, environmental, and other justice movements as It includes songs for marches, rallies, and other activist gatherings. Many of the songs are also useful in the worship services of faith communities including interfaith and multi-generational settings. Along with well-known tunes, the book includes new tunes and fresh arrangements of familiar tunes. The songs highlight the sacredness of all people and creation, name the divine as both male and female, and honor ancient and contemporary women leaders. 

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Earth Transformed with Music!
​Inclusive Songs for Worship

Jann Aldredge-Clanton | Larry E. Schultz
Available from JannAldredgeClanton.com or Amazon
This collection includes 65 songs set to widely-known tunes as well as new tunes. Many of the songs are appropriate for interfaith and multi-generational settings. A special feature of this collection is the inclusion of short songs for various parts of worship liturgy.  In addition to upholding the sacredness of all creation, the songs in the collection exclaim the sacredness of all people by naming the divine as female, male and more. Themes of the songs include gender equality, racial equality, marriage equality, economic justice, care of creation, and peacemaking. This collection also includes songs for comfort, healing, celebration, and thanksgiving.

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Inclusive Hymns for Liberation, Peace & Justice

Jann Aldredge-Clanton | Larry E. Schultz
Available from JannAldredgeClanton.com or Amazon
This collection of 56 hymns contributes to an expansive theology and an ethic of equality and justice in human relationships.  Hymns in the book seek to empower people to take action on gender, race, interfaith cooperation, sexual orientation, ecology, and other social justice issues. Many of the hymns are appropriate for interfaith settings and the collection includes hymns of lament and hymns that celebrate special occasions. Most of the hymns are set to widely-known tunes, and many with new arrangements.

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Inclusive Hymns for Liberating Christians

Jann Aldredge-Clanton | Larry E. Schultz
Available from JannAldredgeClanton.com or Amazon
This collection of hymn texts set to traditional and new hymn tunes includes 116 hymns, notes and extensive indexes. Predominant themes of the hymns are peace, justice, resurrection, abundant life, liberation, new creation, and partnership in relationships.  This collection includes hymns that celebrate the seasons of the church year and other special occasions. The hymns in the book balance female and male divine names and resurrect female divine images, like Wisdom and Ruah, that have long been buried in Scripture and Christian tradition. The hymns also support the sacred value of people of color by symbolizing symbolize darkness as creative bounty and beauty. Inclusive Hymns for Liberating Christians will help churches and individuals in their journey toward freedom from racism, sexism, and other injustices.

​Inclusive Hymns for Liberating Christians CD
Available from JannAldredgeClanton.com
This CD recording by the congregation, choirs and orchestra of Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, Raleigh, NC, contains 21 selections from the collection.
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Single and Multi-Author Collections

Christ Our Hope

Brian Wren
Available from Hope Publishing Company
​This collection by world-renown hymn writer, Brian Wren, includes the tune, LOVE-SONG, by Larry E. Schultz. This tune was composed for Wren's text, The Name We Have Begun to Know, an multi-faith hymn text commissioned by Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, Raleigh, NC, where Schultz is Minister of Music. 
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The Name We Have Begun to Know (LOVE-SONG) is available through Hope Publishing Online Hymns and may be reprinted through ONE LICENSE or CCLI.

Christ Our Hope CD
Available from Hope Publishing Company
This companion CD recorded by the choir of Armour Heights Presbyterian Church, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, includes The Name We Have Begun to Know and other selections from Christ Our Hope.

A Place at the Table

​Shirley Erena Murray
Available from Hope Publishing Company
​Offered by the publisher in print or digital form, this collection by progressive hymn writer, Shirley Murray, includes the tune, OUR OWN VOICE, by Larry E. Schultz. This tune was composed for Murray's text, In Our Own Voice (Raise Up New Hope), a hymn text commissioned for the 125th Anniversary of Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, Raleigh, NC, where Schultz is Minister of Music. 

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In Our Own Voice/Raise Up New Hope (OUR OWN VOICE) is available through Hope Publishing Online Hymns and may be reprinted through ONE LICENSE or CCLI.

Singing Welcome:
Hymns of Songs of Hospitality to Refugees and Immigrants

Editors: Benjamin Brody, Singing Welcome Working Group 
Available from The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada
Current concerns surrounding refugees and immigrants prompted the Hymn Society to produce this resource of hymns and world music for faith communities seeking to raise awareness and offer welcome.  Hymns by Larry E. Schultz included in this collection are From Wisdom Emerging and A Stranger Starving on the Street. Both hymns are also available for download on this site by clicking on their titles.

​Worship in the City:
​Prayers and Songs for Urban Settings

Nancy E. Hardy
Available from United Church of Cananda Resource Distribution Store or Amazon
​Chosen to reflect the urban context, This book's rich collection of prayers and songs shows that in its diversity and creativity, the city can offer an environment that is life-giving. Included in this resource is the hymn, A Stranger, Starving on the Street, by Larry E. .Schultz. It is available for download on this site by clicking on its title.

Denominational Hymnals

Community of Christ Sings

Available from Herald Publishing House (Community of Christ)
With Water Freely Flowing, paired with MERLE'S TUNE by Hal H. Hopson, is a baptism text by Larry E. Schultz included in the Community of Christ denominational hymnal. (For additional information on the hymn, see the Celebrating Grace Hymnal entry below.) 

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Voices Together 

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Available from MennoMedia
With Water Freely Flowing, paired for the first time with Amanda Husberg's tune, OPEN HEART , is a baptism text by Larry E. Schultz included in the Mennonite denominational hymnal. (For additional information on the hymn, see the Celebrating Grace Hymnal entry below.) 

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Lift Up Your Hearts:
​Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs

Available from Faith Alive Christian Resources
Included in this hymnal is Larry E. Schultz's hymn tune, SPIRIT-PRAYER, the winner of a hymn tune contest sponsored by Faith Alive Christian Resources. The contest goal was to find a new tune for Brian Wren's text, We Are Your People, to include in Lift Up Your Hearts. 

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Celebrating Grace Hymnal

Available from Celebrating Grace, Inc.  
This hymnal contains three hymn texts by Larry E. Schultz:

With Water Freely Flowing is a progressive baptism text that, instead of offering harmful atonement theology and sin language, focuses on the washing away of fear as all are "engulfed by love's acceptance." Before publication, the hymn received honorable mention in a baptism hymn search by Orange United Methodist Church, Chapel Hill, NC. The hymn text was effectively paired with MERLE'S TUNE by prolific church music composer, Hal H. Hopson. 

Come and Feast, for All Are Welcomed was the winner of a communion hymn search by Orange United Methodist Church, Chapel Hill, NC. The hymn invites all persons to the table "spread with love." The third stanza uniquely incorporates all five human senses in its description of the communion experience. The hymn's text is set to REGENT SQUARE. 

I'm Coming to Gather All Peoples of Earth was initially an entry in a multi-cultural hymn text contest sponsored by United Methodists. The words, based on Isaiah 66:18, encourage unity in diversity. Though the hymnal's editors altered a phrase in the first stanza to sing: "I'm coming to gather all peoples of earth from various cultures and places of birth..." the author prefers "...from colorful cultures and places of birth..."  Set to the tune, ST. DENIO, the text is meaningful for any service of worship and is especially effective for Pentecost or other services celebrating diverse peoples.  

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The Baptist Hymnal (1991)
​The Christian Praise Hymnal

Convention Press
In midst of and in response to the fundamentalist takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention, Larry E. Schultz authored the hymn text, O God We Ask for Strength. With its inclusion in The Baptist Hymnal, 1991 (a.k.a. The Christian Praise Hymnal), he became the hymnal's youngest living contributor. Though connected in the hymnal to the tune ST. AGNES, the text was originally conceived and sings more pleasingly to the tune, ST. PETER.  

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