{"product_id":"strength-and-tenderness-9781068568855","title":"Strength and Tenderness","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Doug Constable\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cambria Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cambria Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Religious - Hymns\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStrength and Tenderness, Doug Constable's first collection consisting of a hundred hymns and some poems, was warmly received. This further collection ranges more widely and contains four sections: recent poems (a sequence of twenty-seven sonnets responding to George Herbert's Prayer, plus other pieces inserted throughout the book), thirty-two hymns, eight songs for voice and keyboard, seven choral works, and two short pieces for piano. All the music - for hymns, songs and choral settings - range in style from simple and easily-learned to pieces for which some musical background would be helpful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoug is an Anglican priest living in south-west Wales. While still at school, he was a church organist and choir director, and and played piano in dance bands. As a minister, he served in housing estates, university chaplaincy, holiday conference-retreat chaplaincy, and inner-city parishes in Bristol, North Devon, Derby and Southampton.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarried with three children and three adult grandchildren, he is a progressive traditionalist and radical ecumenist, resolutely opposed to all forms of violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46310656049303,"sku":"9781068568855","price":1355.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781068568855.webp?v=1768665465","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/strength-and-tenderness-9781068568855","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}