Dear Editor
Having read the letter by David Barnes (EN, July) on the lack of the cross mentioned in the media, I fully agree. Only recently Songs of Praise announced the top ten hymns and sang them. Within the top five was In Christ Alone and guess which verse was missed out? The one that talks about God's wrath being satisfied.
As a member of the Hymn Society I am very interested in hymnology and I am trying to find out why Songs of Praise and a number of hymn books alter one word in the hymn To God be the Glory. They now have the line ‘Who yielded His life in (not an) atonement for sin.’ A very subtle change, but a world of difference in theological meaning.
