Young Center hosts ‘Living Our Song: The Music of Andy and Terry Murray’

The Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown (Pa.) College is hosting a special event titled “Living Our Song: The Music of Andy and Terry Murray” in its Bucher Meetinghouse on Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. (Eastern time).

“Join us for an evening exploring the rich theological and storytelling legacy of the Murrays’ music, including a time of singing together from Living Our Song: The Music of Andy and Terry Murray, a new songbook collection featuring many of their original compositions,” said a release from the center.

“Andy and Terry Murray—renowned Church of the Brethren musicians and influential theological storytellers—have spent decades blending rich harmonies with deep spiritual insight, using music to pass on essential tenets of Brethren theology, faith, and practice: heroes ‘never carry a gun,’ pick up a ‘shovel instead of a gun,’ and ‘one person at a time’ can get things done.”

Songbook editor Rachel Bucher Swank is a seventh grade general music teacher at Manheim Township Middle School in Lancaster, Pa., and an ordained minister in the Church of the Brethren, currently serving as music coordinator at Elizabethtown (Pa.) Church of the Brethren. She holds a master’s degree in Music and Peacebuilding from Elizabethtown College and a master’s degree in Education and a certificate of Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation in Educational Settings from Eastern Mennonite University.