Dear Editor,
Richard Simpkins’ regular column, ‘Music Exchange’, is always worth reading (and acting on!); I specially appreciate his advocacy of the regular use of the Psalms, said or sung in whatever form. It is a bizarre experience to meet for up to 90 minutes with believers who call themselves Anglican, Reformed or both, but who never taste the riches of this book at the heart of the Bible and the teaching of the Lord Jesus.
However, the surprise this time (June en) is Richard’s judgment that ‘very few’ of the contemporary metrical versions have been ‘really successful’. At the risk of bias to my home team, whether in Jubilate, Praise or neither, it seems to me that we are living through a golden age of Psalm versions in English!
