On Separating the Worship of God & Country: Whose Tune Will We Sing?

Introduction: Or, the Piece I Was Going to Write We sang a lovely hymn in worship on Sunday: Lord, You Give the Great Commission. I noticed while we were singing that the tune was written in 1941. With that in mind, here is the piece I was planning to write: Imagine what was going on in the world in 1941 when Cyril Thomas wrote this music. The world was at war. Unspeakable atrocities were being...