{"id":263,"date":"2013-08-16T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/bhla\/?p=263"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:16:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T21:16:27","slug":"ken-morse-brethren-hymnist-with-a-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/hiddengems\/ken-morse-brethren-hymnist-with-a-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Morse: Brethren Hymnist with a Message"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Keith S. Morphew<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if you don\u2019t recognize his name, you\u2019ve probably sung Ken Morse\u2019s Move in our Midst<\/em><\/a>. Kenneth Ivan Morse was the son of Herman V. and Sadie Bennett Morse, born 1913 in Altoona, PA. He grew up in the Altoona congregation and graduated from Juniata College and Pennsylvania State University with a Masters in English Literature. <\/p>\n\n\n

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In 1941, Morse married Marjorie L. Hanawalt and taught public school until 1943 when he began a thirty-five year tenure with the denominational staff of the Church of the Brethren General Board, editing youth publications (1943-50). In 1950 he succeeded Desmond W. Bittinger as editor of The Gospel Messenger<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The magazine continued under Morse for fifteen years until Ken and his staff made significant alterations to its appearance and added new features, as well as shifting from a weekly to bi-weekly publication schedule, shortening the name to Messenger<\/em><\/a>. In 1971 he moved to edition books for the Brethren Press<\/a>, while continuing to act as an associate editor for Messenger<\/em> until his retirement in 1978. Morse was a prolific writer and hymnist whose works include the aforementioned Move in our Midst<\/em> as well as a book on worship and New Windsor Center. He died March 23, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Even if you don\u2019t recognize his name, you\u2019ve probably sung Ken Morse\u2019s Move in our Midst. Kenneth Ivan Morse was the son of Herman V. and Sadie Bennett Morse, born 1913 in Altoona, PA. He grew up in the Altoona congregation and graduated from Juniata College and Pennsylvania State University with a Masters in English Literature. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3,2,10,68,69,57,5,70],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hidden-gems","tag-bhla","tag-brethren-historical-library-and-archives","tag-hidden-gem","tag-hymnist","tag-ken-morse","tag-messenger","tag-pennsylvania","tag-the-gospel-messenger"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}