{"id":758,"date":"2021-05-20T13:21:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T13:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urc.org.uk\/latest-news\/3824-new-collection-of-praise-and-protest-songs-released-ahead-of-george-floyd-anniversary.html"},"modified":"2021-05-20T13:21:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T13:21:50","slug":"new-collection-of-praise-and-protest-songs-released-ahead-of-george-floyd-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=758","title":{"rendered":"New collection of praise and protest songs released ahead of George Floyd anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/urc.org.uk\/images\/News\/News_images\/Sunflowers-and-thistles-cover_news_banner.jpg\" alt=\"Sunflowers and thistles cover news banner\" width=\"300\" style=\"margin-left: 10px;margin-bottom: 10px;float: right\" \/><strong>As the first anniversary of the murder of George Floyd approaches, the United Reformed Church (URC) has published a new collection of praise songs and protest, <em>Sunflowers &amp; Thistles<\/em>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Written by the Revd John Campbell, Minister of High Cross URC, Tottenham, the book of 36 songs was inspired by the global Black Lives Matters (BLM) protests and devastating impact of Covid 19.<\/p>\n<p>Available to download for free from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urc.org.uk\/sunflowers-and-thistles\">www.urc.org.uk\/sunflowers-and-thistles<\/a>, John explains how it became important for him to express the emotions of his congregation:<\/p>\n<p class=\"feed-readmore\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/latest-news\/3824-new-collection-of-praise-and-protest-songs-released-ahead-of-george-floyd-anniversary.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the first anniversary of the murder of George Floyd approaches, the United Reformed Church (URC) has published a new collection of praise songs and protest, Sunflowers &amp; Thistles.  Written by the Revd John Campbell, Minister of High Cross URC, Tottenham, the book of 36 songs was inspired by the global Black Lives Matters (BLM) protests and devastating impact of Covid 19. Available to download for free from www.urc.org.uk\/sunflowers-and-thistles, John explains how it became important for him to express the emotions of his congregation: Read More &#8230; &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=758\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urc-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.4 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As the first anniversary of the murder of George Floyd approaches, the United Reformed Church (URC) has published a new collection of praise songs and protest, Sunflowers &amp; Thistles. 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