This hymn uses Jesus as a model for our own opportunities to learn, grow, rethink, and change direction (repent) to become more open-hearted, generous, and hospitable - especially to those we think do not belong.

Join us as we celebrate the Advent season with a Christmas Concert from our choir!

"Blue Christmas" services, which take place to support people struggling emotionally during the holiday season, are becoming more common. This song was written for such services. Ken Janzen sings and plays the instruments.

4 Advent Video Hymns written for the Worship Design Studio, which created its own separate videos. Recordings and videos by Ken Janzen

An old hymn of mine, recently rewritten slightly. Recorded here by the Orange Coast Unitarian Universalist Choir.

Suitable for progressive/inclusive/justice-focused Christian congregations. Written for The Fountains, a UMC congregation in Arizona.

Inspired by my March 2023 visit to The Fountains UMC in Arizona; written with a very simple melody and small range to maximize small congregations' ability to learn and sing the piece.

This Communion hymn, commissioned by the First Congregational Church, Branford, CT, is appropriate for progressive/inclusive Christian churches.

This progressive Christian hymn images Jesus as healer, teacher, and prophet, and invites all people (regardless of their religion) to be healers, teachers, and prophets in our time.

Written for the installation of Rev. Mallory Everhart as Co-Pastor at Vista Grande Community Church UCC; the images under the final verse are related to the congregation, inspired by Hebrews 11-12.

A COVID-19 song about our pain, resilience, and ability to care for each other in impossible times. We were called for just such a time as this.

A gentle Communion hymn usable with Emmaus text.

Written for the Reconciling Ministries Network; this video centers Pride and inclusive church images.

  Lead vocals by Rev. Kate Penney Howard. Other vocals, instruments, and engineering by Ken Janzen. New hymn text, set to the tune

This was written for an Evolution Sunday service and incorporates ideas from process theology.

Swing version of my stewardship hymn From Our Abundance We Give. Appropriate for inclusive Christian, Unitarian Universalist, and other congregations.

This upbeat sending-out song or closing hymn is based on words adapted from a famous John Wesley quote.

This upbeat sending-out song or closing hymn is based on words adapted from a famous John Wesley quote.

Amanda wrote this piece when churches were closing their doors early on in COVID as a reminder that church is more than a building.

A Pentecost social justice song. And a prayer for any day of the year for those dedicated to building Beloved Community. Winner of the 2021 United Church of Christ Musicians Association Hymn Writing Competition

A short closing or sending-out song appropriate for all forms of inclusive worship.

This hymn is appropriate for Earth Day and other environmental worship services. Recording and video by Ken Janzen.

This simple prayer is inspired by the writings of Brian McLaren.

Initially written as a somber a cappella piece for a worship service, this version is musically full and rich, leaning toward hope while still acknowledging the grief so many of us feel from deaths caused by gun violence.

A pretty, simple Easter Hymn: Love Will Have the Final Laugh

The 43rd annual Paul Winter Consort Winter Solstice Celebration, in the form of a video retrospective, is now available to watch for free on YouTube.

Our team that we send out as a band can be booked as an all-inclusive worship leading package, or in partnership with some of a church’s current team members who serve the band in worship.

Blessed Christmas-tide even in a particularly bleak mid-winter. One carol includes a metaphorical rose blooming in darkest winter.

A remarkable circa 1990 recording of Martin Luther King's favorite gospel hymn, "Precious Lord," has been posted on YouTube, accompanied with visuals and quotations from the Civil Rights Era

Listen below to the Eco-Hymn "Come then, fellow travellers" set to the tune of "Onward, Christian soldiers".