Selah now has a rapidly growing online database of its hymns. Find just what you need for any of your worship services. Visit our hymn search page now!

A new collection from Selah is Hear the Angels Sing, a collection of hymns devoted to the work of those heavenly beings we know so little about but are such a great part of today's culture. The newest collection to be published is New Harmony: A Harp of Thousand Strings, a collaboration between poet Richard Leach and composer David Ashley White.

Selah has been at the cutting edge of contemporary hymnody since our first publication in 1989, and we still are.

Download the first hymnal published this millennium, available only online, Selah's Hymnal Supplement 2000, already downloaded by the thousands.

A good primer on the history of Christian hymnody up to the present is the newly revised edition of Erik Routley's A Panorama of Christian Hymnody, edited and expanded by Paul A. Richardson. (And Selah is well-represented in the texts published in this collection.)

Selah's congregational song collections
Hear the Angels Sing (2005)
Selah Psalter
Shepherd Songs, a collection of new hymns on Christ the Good Shepherd by today's finest authors and composers.
Sing Justice, Do Justice
To God with Love
Sing to Our God New Songs of Rejoicing (2000)
New Songs of Rejoicing (1994)
Songs of Rejoicing: Hymns for Worship, Meditation & Praise (1989)

We're proud to publish the hymn collections of

Patricia Clark

• New! The Still Small Voice

Edith Downing

• A Season of Clear Shining

Rusty Edwards

• Grateful Praise: Hymns and Songs by Rusty Edwards
  

Alfred V. Fedak

• Sing to the Lord No Threadbare Song
• The Alfred V. Fedak Hymnary

Gracia Grindal

• We Are One in Christ

Roy Hopp

• The Roy Hopp Hymnary

Richard Leach

• New! New Harmony: A Harp of Thousand Strings
• Honey from the Rock
• We Sing the Shoreline
• Pray Then Like This: Hymns on the Lord's Prayer
• Go Worship At Emmanuel's Feet
• Feel the Spirit in the Kicking
• Carpenter, Why Leave the Bench
• Over the Waves of Words

Herbert O'Driscoll

• New! Praise, My Soul

Joy F. Patterson

• New! Teach Our Eyes New Ways of Seeing

Thomas Pavlechko

• New! Wellspring
• Radiant City

James Quinn sj

• Praise for All Seasons

David A. Robb

• Heartsongs: Hymns by David A. Robb

William P. Rowan

• Together Met, Together Bound

Bill Wallace

• The Mystery Telling

David Ashley White

• New! New Harmony: A Harp of Thousand Strings
• Sing My Soul: The Hymns of David Ashley White
• Songs for a New Creation:
  New Hymns by David Ashley White

Rae E. Whitney

• With Joy Our Spirits Sing:
  The Hymns of Rae E. Whitney

Selah's very first publication was the well-received hymnal supplement, Songs of Rejoicing: Hymns for Worship, Meditation & Praise, in 1989, followed by our next supplement New Songs of Rejoicing in 1994, and we continue publishing the best contemporary hymns being written today, including our latest supplement Sing to Our God New Songs of Rejoicing, published in 2000. Our publications include these three supplements, a children's hymnal, To God with Love, and numerous individual author and composer collections.

Two hymns that are appropriate for worship services in light of the tragedies that hit the U.S. September 11, 2001, are available for free use and use without prior permission. "Let Justice Roll on Earth" and "God, You See Your Loved Creation" may be downloaded as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file. To download the file, click and hold on this link to download the small (84k) PDF file. It should take less than a minute to download these files with a normal dial-up connection. Carl Daw (through Hope Publishing) has also made available a newly written hymn, and it is available in two settings by David Ashley White in PDF form through this link. If you have problems doing this, Selah will e-mail the PDF files by return e-mail.

Selah's has published Sing Justice! Do Justice!, a powerful new collection of 25 hymns chosen from the submissions to the hymn search for hymns on the theme of justice sponsored by The Hymn Society and Alternatives for Simple Living.

Licensing Selah's hymns for use in your church is generally quite simple and inexpensive, so don't let that stop you from showing your church that hymnody is a living art and craft. Selah participates in the CCLI, LicenSing, and OneLicense.net licensing programs, and if your church subscribes to any of these programs, all of Selah's hymns may be reported directly to either organization.

If you want to delve into all the issues surrounding congregational singing, there's no better resource than Hymnology Annual, a journal devoted to the study of hymnody and song used in worship.