Today’s service explores the evolution of a song. How did a camp meeting hymn from the early 1800s become “John Brown’s Body,” “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” and then “Solidarity Forever?” This is a story of Living Music; of abolition, war, a Unitarian feminist, unions, and how meanings and movements shift over time.

About Melody: Melody Moberg is a hospital chaplain, a spiritual director, and a candidate for Unitarian Universalist ministry.

Topics: Music, Solidarity, Song, Storytelling