Hymns & Devotions for Daily Worship
African American Edition

Hymn & Devotions for Daily Worship: African American Edition is an extraordinarily well-curated collection of gospel songs, spirituals, and hymns, with insightful, passionate, and Bible-centric accompanying essays and devotions by an expansive array of theologians, musicians, and heroes of both the faith and the Civil Rights movement. As such, the commentary contains a startling number of insights . . . and has already found a readily available, accessible place in my study!

Robert Darden | Author, People Get Ready! A New History of Black Gospel Music (2004)

Explore the riches of African American gospel songs, hymns, and spirituals in this landmark collection of 82 songs, arranged to follow the liturgical Church year, with historical and devotional commentary by songwriters, pastors, and scholars, from 1760 to the present. Devotional reflections from the likes of Absalom Jones, W.E.B. Du Bois, Howard Thurman, and Martin Luther King Jr. are nestled alongside personal testimonies from the songwriters themselves, from Charles Tindley and Charles Price Jones to Margaret Douroux, Richard Smallwood, and Kirk Franklin. Includes new interviews with living composers and descendants, newly commissioned tunes for historic hymn texts, and some early Black poets who have never before been included in hymnals. Discover more about the writers and composers through short biographies and musicological notes. These pages represent a treasure trove of musical and spiritual history from the African American Christian diaspora. 

Edited by Chris Fenner

Foreword by Dr. Stephen M. Newby | Pro Mundo—Ambassador, Black Gospel Archive & Listening Center, School of Music, Professor of Music and Lev H. Prichard III Endowed Chair in the Study of Black Worship, Baylor University