"Shine, Jesus Shine"? Never heard of it.
Is it one of those tunes that our choirmaster refers to, with contempt dripping off his tongue, as "praise music"? The one kind of stuff our choir never sings? We do Gospel, we do Bach Chorales, we do Palestrina and Tallis, we do motets, we do some contemporary stuff, we sing in English, Spanish, and Latin. But not whatever "praise music" is, apparently.
Then you're partway to Anglo-Catholic Heaven already. I, sadly, have much further to go...
Is it one of those tunes that our choirmaster refers to, with contempt dripping off his tongue, as "praise music"?
I believe so.
Yes it is - funny thing was I was first exposed to that music when I joined a contemporary Episcopalian church locally...(me not having any idea at the time what was going on between traditional and "progressives") - I kept asking them "why arent we singing the OLD music"...
I LOVE your choir director!!