Let me start this music-oriented post by highlighting that Jim Linville kindly put together a roster for a band of bibliobloggers. I play keyboards.
Doug Chaplin reciprocated my tagging him with a meme about CCM, by tagging me with a meme asking me to choose a hymn I love to hate. Being forced to choose only one, I found it rather easy to pick “All Things Bright and Beautiful” because of its infamous and oft-omitted verse:
The rich man in his castle,
The poor man at his gate,
He made them, high or lowly,
And ordered their estate.
I will gladly explain why I find this verse objectionable, but it is probably obvious, and may well be the same reason that most editors of hymnals leave the verse out.
As for passing the meme on, I tag Jim Linville, Arni Zachariassen, and Joel Watts.
And for those more scientifically-minded, here’s a variation by Ben Hillman which not only omits the verse above, but changes other words to turn it into a hymn about evolution (HT several different science blogs):
On a less musical note, Mark Goodacre shared some videos about accenting ancient Greek, and Ἡλληνιστεύκοντος offers a treatment of accentuation of ancient Greek as well as other related subjects.
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