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Staff Snapshot: Zach DeCook

Sat, 09/08/2018 - 08:57 — pdehaan

Zach DeCook has been a Hymnary staff member for 2 1/2 years, first as a student intern and then as a full-timer since June 2018. He is one of the many Hymnary unsung (pun intended) heroes, attending to a wide variety of behind-the-scenes duties that are integral to the success of the site.

It's a challenge he enjoys. "In a typical week at Hymnary," he says, "I'll work on new developments for Hymnary, review code, discuss implementation details with co-workers and deploy changes onto the site." 


Featured Hymn: "How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds"

Sun, 09/02/2018 - 13:44 — verhulst

"How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds" by John Newton (1774).

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Redesigned Site Navigation

Tue, 08/28/2018 - 09:29 — pdehaan

From our Daniel Harold comes word that our long-awaited redesigned site navigation is now live on Hymnary.org. The new mobile-friendly navigation interfaces were designed and implemented by Zach DeCook and Joel Stehouwer with contributions from Ann Brown. Give it a spin and let us know what you think!

-Harry Plantinga


August 2018 Newsletter

Mon, 08/13/2018 - 14:31 — pdehaan

Our August 2018 newsletter went out this morning. If you're not on our email list, you can see the latest issue online.

https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=03252e86fcc1ce909a7c56979&id=db8902aa44

Or go to the latest issue to find the subscribe button and be in the know for future issues! And if you have ideas for future newsletter content (things you're wondering about, confused about, especially love, etc), let us know. Thanks!

Phil de Haan, Hymnary newsletter editor


Staff Snapshot: Micah Ng

Mon, 08/13/2018 - 14:19 — pdehaan

Web developer Micah Ng has been working fulltime for Hymnary since May 2018 after graduating from Calvin with degrees in computer science and mathematics. Prior to that, Micah was a Hymnary intern, working with the website since the summer of 2014 on a fulltime basis in the summers and parttime during the school years. He now works for both Hymnary.org and sister site preachingandworship.org.


Staff Snapshot: Harry Plantinga

Wed, 08/08/2018 - 11:24 — pdehaan

Harry Plantinga is the director of Hymnary.org and has worked at Hymnary from the start. Or, perhaps more accurately, from before the start since he and his friend Greg Scheer conceived the idea and got the first grant. 


Plantinga Quoted in Protest Hymns Story

Wed, 08/08/2018 - 14:21 — pdehaan

Hymnary director Harry Plantinga added his perspective to an RNS piece by Adelle Banks in August 2018, speaking to the climate(s) in which hymns arise. Here's the pertinent section with Harry:

Harry Plantinga, director of Hymnary, a 10-year-old online index of hymnals, said the Hymn Society’s conference — held in St. Louis, where the Black Lives Matter movement developed — featured speakers including a Cuban hymn writer and the publisher of African-American hymnals whose songs speak to injustice in the Americas.


Feature Hymn: "I Will Sing of My Redeemer"

Sat, 08/04/2018 - 11:21 — verhulst

Author: P. P. Bliss (1876)

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Staff Snapshots: Daniel Harold

Tue, 07/31/2018 - 09:22 — pdehaan

Daniel Harold is one of the many behind-the-scenes people who keeps Hymnary humming. Among a myriad of daily duties for Daniel is reviewing and testing the code written by other developers to make sure it will work well before it is deployed to Hymnary.org. This could be anything from code that adds new features to bug fixes. He's also responsible for properly working servers, automatic backups, disk space and much, much more. 


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