 great learning, reading and writing in Swedish, Norwegian, French, German, and English. She also worked tirelessly as an editor for a Christian publishing house in Stockholm while writing her over 2,000 hymn texts and poems. Far from a sickly country girl who had a way with words, she was an intelligent and industrious woman whose work was crucial to the spiritual revival in Sweden.
Further, many of her poems also stretched the traditionally male images and language used for God. In her first published version of “Day by Day and with Each Passing Moment,” she wrote that God “bears for me a mother’s heart” (it was later changed by her publishers to “father’s heart”). In another song, she calls Jesus “Father, mother, home, and future,” and even published a hymn with the title, “Now I Will Sing of the Mother’s Wings.” In our contemporary theological landscape where many are noting the limitations of exclusively male language for God, Sandell can be an early source in our own tradition from which we can glean. (all details on Sandell come from Gindal’s Preaching From Home.)
So, the next time you are singing a hymn in church, look down to the bottom left of the page and see who wrote it. Was it a woman? Was the text written in a time when women couldn’t preach or teach in church (which is still true, whether implicitly or explicitly, in too many Christian traditions)? If so, you hold not only a beautiful piece of Christian history and poetry, but a subversive sermon that, when sung, allows the voices of these preachers to continue to reverberate through the centuries, proclaiming the word of God to the people of God. Thanks be to God!
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