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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.
Always There's a Carol
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Shirley Erena Murray
Always there's a carol waiting for a voice, always there's a candle waiting for a flame, always there's an angel telling us "Rejoice!" So, sing the carol, light the candle, join ...
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At This Table - SATB
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Words by
Shirley Erena Murray
; Music by
Allen Pote
Original anthem
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Dona Nobis Pacem
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Shirley Erena Murray
(with choice of stanzas based on select theme)
(Inner Peace)
peace that no word or secret can tell, peace deeply sure that all will be well - peace that knows gifting, letting things go, peace that accepts when healing is sl...
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HW5454
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Everything That Has Voice (Sing for Peace)
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Shirley Erena Murray
Everything that has voice sing for peace, speak for peace, given chance, given choice, work for peace, write for peace, resonating everywhere, echoing our common care: everything that has voice, sing for peace! All the world longs for pe...
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Follow the Songlines
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Shirley Erena Murray
Refrain:
Follow the songlines, follow the Spirit singing the world into being anew, follow the theme of the ancient ones' dreaming, footprints in faith that the track will run true. ...
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Gentle God, When We Are Driven
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Shirley Erena Murray
Gentle God, when we are driven past the limits of our love, when our hurt would have a weapon and the hawk destroy the dove, at the cost of seeming weak, help us turn the other cheek. Gentle Spirit, when our r...
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01/01/1992
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God So Loves the World
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Shirley Erena Murray
God so loves the world that we may love the world, world of our senses, worlds beyond our sight, beauty in our world, the people in our world, gleams of the glory, God's divine delight. God so loves the world ...
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God Who Is Life
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Shirley Erena Murray
God who is life, breath of our breath, give to us all our daily bread! Jesus the Christ taught us to pray "Give us today our daily bread" - while hunger cries, where justice dies, begging-bowl children crowd, unfed, God who is life, breath of...
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How Happy You Who Work for Peace!
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Shirley Erena Murray
How happy you who work for peace! your hands shall plant and not destroy, your words defuse the power of hate, your prayers bring *aroha and joy. The scars of earth, of blast and bomb shall then be healed, and green will grow, the air that radiated de...
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01/01/1992
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In the Quiet of This Day
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Shirley Erena Murray
In the quiet of this day, in the safety of this place, Holy Presence, hear me pray, soothe my spirit with your peace. Take the tangle of my thought, take the tension from my frame, free within me what is fraught, still the...
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01/01/1999
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It Is Time! (A Song about White Poppies for Peace)
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Shirley Erena Murray
It is time! Let the white poppies bloom and the blood of the past stain no more; it is time... for the sowing of seed that will outgrow the jungles of war.
and the soul of the world will be healed, and the darkness give way to the sun, and the t...
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01/01/2015
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Let Us Go in Your Peace (Pauatahanui Blessing)
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Shirley Erena Murray
Let us go in your peace, let us know what is peace by the power of your love, by the Spirit's release, and in all we must face that can hurt or destroy let us work for your peace: kindness, justice and joy....
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01/01/2005
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Lift High the Cross (adapted by Shirley Erena Murray)
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Shirley Erena Murray
; George William Kitchin
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Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim till all the world adore his glorious name! Come, Christian people, sing your praises, shout! if we are silent, even stones cry out.
Refrain
Jesus, you wept to see ou...
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01/01/1974
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Peace Comes Crying (A Lament)
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Shirley Erena Murray
Peace comes crying through the world, crying for her life, gunfire shatters silent skies, powers plot her grief; childrens' children march to war, wear the badge of death - peace comes crying through the world, crying for...
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HW5411
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PEACE IS GENEROSITY
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Shirley Erena Murray
Peace is generosity, peace is right and duty, not diminishment of life but its zest and beauty, not the silence of the dead nor the tears of grieving but dynamic of a world rich beyond believing. Peace is not the child of fear nor what ter...
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Peace Must Be Dared - It Is the Great Venture
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Shirley Erena Murray
In honor of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and in memory of his courage
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HW5099
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Peace to You - SATB
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Words by
Shirley Erena Murray
; Music by
Lloyd Larson
Original Anthem
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C5150
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Simply to Be
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Shirley Erena Murray
Simply to be, to be in stillness, simply to trust that God is here, simply to know the Holy Presence, is to be blessed: so am I blessed, simply to hold the given moment, simply to lay concern aside, simply to let the heart be speakin...
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01/01/2006
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When at This Table - SATB
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Words by
Shirley Erena Murray
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Allen Pote
Communion Ballad
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C6443
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05/01/2024
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Where the Light of Easter Day
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Shirley Erena Murray
Where the light of Easter Day shines through our life, then faith can say, Christ is living, Christ is moving, Christ is changing all the world. Here is God's good kingdom! Where the yeast of love will rise, bubbling with God's new e...
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HW3042
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01/01/2008
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