The words that we sing help to shape what we believe – that is hardly controversial. But John Bell and Graham Maule passionately argue that much traditional hymnody, and praise and worship material, addresses too limited a range of subjects and needs supplementing if it is to represent ‘the full panoply of the magnificence of God and the experience of God’s people’. So here they offer 21 songs, mostly in four-part arrangements, roughly half from John Bell and half from around the world (and especially from the southern hemisphere). The only songs beginning with the word ‘I’ are psalm paraphrases. For the rest, Bell and Maule have chosen songs that express corporate worship rather than personal piety. The musical arrangements are varied but always simple. A CD is also available from Wild Goose Publications – see www.wgrg.co.uk for CD details and for a list of all the songs in book and CD.