🎼
For $10 off Orders $50+ use Code: H29012
🎼
Orders Over $100 Free Shipping
X Close
Login
Cart #:
0
| Items:
0
| Total:
$0.00
1-800-323-1049
Quick Order
Wish List
My Account
My Orders
Lookup Order
Menu
Login
Cart #:
0
| Items:
0
| Total:
$0.00
1-800-323-1049
Quick Order
Wish List
My Account
My Orders
Lookup Order
Choral
All Choral & Vocal
NEW
Fall & Christmas 2020
Youth Musicals
Christmas Musicals
Vocal Music
Featured Composers
Choral Review Club
Choral Folders
Choral Catalogs
Handbell
All Handbell
NEW
Fall & Christmas 2020
Reproducible Collections
Ring & Sing
Featured Composers
Handbell Review Club
Handbell Folders
Handbell Catalogs
Instrumental
All Instrumental
NEW!
Instrumental Music
Brass
Clarinet
Flute
Guitar
Strings
Vocal
Instrumental Catalog
Keyboard
All Keyboard
NEW!
Keyboard Music
Piano
4-Hand Piano
Organ
Organ & Piano Duet
Creative Use Series
Keyboard Catalog
Hymnals
Print Hymnals
Large Print Hymnals
Author Collections
Books about Music
Worship Planning
Find Hymns by Words
Find Hymns by Tune
Find Hymns By Writer
Lectionary Planner
Scripture Planner
Permissions
Reprint Policy
License Request
License Payment
Copyright F.A.Q.
About
History
Staff
Authors & Composers
Represented Companies
Events
Contact Us
Merch
Join Our Email Mailing List
FAQ
close
Scroll to Top
FEATURED
Best Seller (1)
Catalog Classic (1)
Product Type
Hymn Text (285)
Author Collections (5)
Choral (11)
Alpha Hymn Search
A (8)
B (11)
C (32)
D-E (6)
F (14)
G (40)
H (9)
I (14)
J-K (5)
L (20)
M (3)
N (12)
O (13)
P (8)
S (24)
T (26)
W (40)
Author & Composer
Gibson, Colin (1)
Holstein, Jane (1)
Larson, Lloyd (2)
McDonald, Mary (1)
Murray, Shirley Erena (302)
Pote, Allen (3)
Season
Advent (7)
Christmas (31)
Epiphany (4)
Lent (1)
Holy Week (4)
Palm Sunday (1)
Good Friday (7)
Easter Sunday (15)
Pentecost (3)
General (14)
Occasion
Anniversary (1)
Baptism (2)
Celebration (7)
Dedication (4)
Evening (1)
Funeral & Memorial (13)
Gathering (2)
Morning (1)
Music & Singing (17)
Ordination (2)
Outreach (2)
Thanksgiving (4)
Order of Service
Call To Worship (1)
Responsorials (1)
Offering (1)
Communion (6)
Benediction (16)
Theme
Adoration (1)
Children (22)
Church - Ministry (8)
Cities (6)
Comfort (8)
Commitment (12)
Confidence (1)
Conflict - Spiritual (2)
Creation (7)
Cross of Christ (4)
Death and Beyond (1)
Devotion (1)
Discipleship (2)
Eternal Life (1)
Faith (25)
Faithfulness (2)
Forgiveness (14)
Freedom-Liberation (11)
Global (11)
God - Creator (1)
God - Faithfulness (1)
God - Father (2)
God - Grace (1)
God - Love (6)
God - Presence (3)
Grace (6)
Grief (15)
Guidance (4)
Heaven (1)
Holy Spirit (26)
Hope (39)
Humanity (15)
Humility (1)
Incarnation (4)
Jesus Christ - Birth (6)
Jesus Christ - Cross (3)
Jesus Christ - Death (2)
Jesus Christ - Friend (3)
Jesus Christ - Love (1)
Jesus Christ - Passion (3)
Jesus Christ - Presence (3)
Jesus Christ - Redeemer (1)
Jesus Christ - Resurrection (4)
Joy (6)
Justice & Peace (40)
Kingdom (1)
Lamb of God (1)
Life of Christ (1)
Life of Faith (1)
Light (1)
Lord's Supper (1)
Love (7)
Mercy (7)
Mission (7)
Nature (2)
New Life in Christ (5)
Peace (25)
Peace on Earth (18)
Praise (2)
Praise of God (2)
Praise to Christ (3)
Prayer (4)
Promise (2)
Redemption (2)
Renewal (6)
Resurrection (4)
Sacrifice (1)
Stewardship (1)
Trust (17)
Unity (6)
Wisdom (5)
Worshiping (1)
Filter
Worship Planning
|
Find Hymns By Writer
|
Murray, Shirley Erena
Shirley Erena Murray
302 products
Page 1 of 13
SHIRLEY ERENA MURRAY (b. 1931) is a hymn text writer, born in Invercargill, New Zealand in 1931.
Murray, Shirley Erena
Her texts have appeared in more than 100 collections worldwide and have been translated into several languages. She has been an editor with the New Zealand Hymnbook Trust and received international acclaim for her writing, including being made a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music (2006) and becoming a Member of the NZ Order of Merit (2001) for services to the community through hymn writing. She is the first citizen to be so honored. Most recently, she has been honored by the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada at its July 2009 annual conference by being named a Fellow of the Society in recognition of her contributions as a hymn writer to the international community of congregational song. Also, in 2009, she was awarded the title of Honorary Doctor of Literature (D.Litt.) from the University of Otago.
Shirley has been the Erik Routley Fellow (PCUSA) in 1996 and her hymns have been included in the worship of the World Council of Churches' Assemblies.
She has worked with Dr I-to Loh, musical ethnologist from Taiwan, in paraphrasing Asian hymns into English and providing texts for `Sound the Bamboo' (1990, 2000).
Her fourth collection, Touch the Earth Lightly was just released by Hope Publishing Company in the summer of 2008. In her previous books, In Every Corner Sing (1992), Every Day in Your Spirit (1996) and Faith Makes the Song (2003), her work appears with settings by many different composers. In the past fifteen years the NZHT has published four collections of new hymns also containing a wide variety of her texts and set by New Zealand composers: Alleluia Aotearoa, Carol Our Christmas, He Came Singing Peace and Faith Forever Singing.
Her hymns and carols address a wide spectrum of themes ranging from the seasons of the Church year to human rights, care of creation, women's concerns and above all, peace. Methodist by upbringing, and ecumenical by persuasion, she has spent most of her life as a Presbyterian. She was married to a former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of NZ, the Very Rev. John Stewart Murray, who passed away just recently (2017). She has three sons and six grandchildren, and now lives in active retirement in Paraparaumu Beach.
Next
Last
A SINGLE GRAIN OF WHEAT -
Murray, Shirley Erena
(
0 Reviews
)
ADVENT SONG -
MURRAY/GIBSON/HOLSTEIN
(
0 Reviews
)
ALL OVER CREATION -
Murray, Shirley Erena
(
0 Reviews
)
ALWAYS THERE'S A CAROL -
Murray, Shirley Erena
(
0 Reviews
)
AND JESUS SAID -
Murray, Shirley Erena
(
0 Reviews
)
AS MY FEET WALK THE WAY -
Murray, Shirley Erena
(
0 Reviews
)
AS THE WIND SONG THROUGH THE TREES -
Murray, Shirley Erena
(
0 Reviews
)
AT THE DOOR OF THE YEAR (NEW YEAR CAROL) -
Murray, Shirley Erena
(
0 Reviews
)
AT THIS TABLE -
MURRAY/POTE
(
0 Reviews
)
AWAY AND IN DANGER (CAROL OF THE REFUGEE CHILDREN) -
Murray, Shirley Erena
(
0 Reviews
)
BE THE LIGHT WITHIN OUR DARKNESS -
Murray, Shirley Erena
(
0 Reviews
)
BECAUSE OF THE BABY -
Murray, Shirley Erena
(
0 Reviews
)
BECAUSE YOU CAME -
Murray, Shirley Erena
(
0 Reviews
)
BECAUSE YOU LIVE, O CHRIST -
Murray, Shirley Erena
(
0 Reviews
)
BLESS THE LITTLE CHILD -
Murray, Shirley Erena
(
0 Reviews
)
BLESS, LOVING GOD, THIS WAITING PLACE -
Murray, Shirley Erena
(
0 Reviews
)
BRING IN THE CHRISTMAS THAT LIGHTS UP THE AGES! -
Murray, Shirley Erena
(
0 Reviews
)
BRING IN YOUR NEW WORLD -
Murray, Shirley Erena
(
0 Reviews
)
BRING THE BREAD, BRING THE WINE (HYMN OF APPROACH TO COMMUNION) -
Murray, Shirley Erena
(
0 Reviews
)
BROKEN THE BODY -
Murray, Shirley Erena
(
0 Reviews
)
BUILDING ON FAITH -
Murray, Shirley Erena
(
0 Reviews
)
CAROL OUR CHRISTMAS -
Murray, Shirley Erena
(
0 Reviews
)
CELEBRATE ALL HUMAN BEAUTY -
Murray, Shirley Erena
(
0 Reviews
)
CELEBRATE EACH GENERATION -
Murray, Shirley Erena
(
0 Reviews
)
Next
Last
Worship Planning
|
Find Hymns By Writer
|
Murray, Shirley Erena
X
X