[Rufii]

A few years ago, the United Church of Christ adopted new hymnals with solid black covers. These "Black Hymnals" included many familiar hymns, but many of them had their lyrics edited and sometimes completely replaced with new "politically correct" lyrics. For example, all notions of God as a father or Jesus as a king were expunged.

At a Congregationalist (United Church of Christ) church in a deeply conservative area not far from, here, the parishioners were furious. Many had been members long before the denomination went radical. So they kept the older hymnals along with the "Black Hymnals."

[taterjay]

Try this from a UCC hymnal. How beautiful 2 continents and islands in the sea. That dream of peace, non violence, all people living free. Americas, Americas! God grant that we may be a hemisphere where people here all live in harmony. Cry, don’t laugh.