Empty Jar

Empty jar, clear and clean, dropped into mountain stream

Author: James K. Manley
Tune: [Empty jar, clear and clean, dropped into mountain stream]
Published in 1 hymnal

Author: James K. Manley

James K. Manley was born in 1940 at Holyoke, Massachusetts, and received his education at Whittier College, Pacific School of Religion, and Claremont School of Theology, all in California. He was ordained to the ministry of the United Church of Christ in 1966. James K. Manley wrote the tune SPIRIT for his text of 1978, and it appeared in his collection After Eden (1990) with an arrangement by Jim Strathdee. A new arrangement was created for The New Century Hymnal. Note that the refrain is to be sung over following each stanza. James Manley served as pastor of Congregational United Church of Christ in San Marino, California, from 1978 to 1988 and then moved to Foothills United Church of Christ in Los Altos, California. This new con… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Empty jar, clear and clean, dropped into mountain stream
Title:	Empty Jar
Author:	James K. Manley
Language:	English
Notes:	As an alternative: select one phrase to chant without accompaniment as a meditation
Copyright:	© 1999 Jim Manley