From a pastor netfriend:

I would include such names as Shirley Murray and Bill Wallace (NZ) and Andrew Pratt (Gt Britain). Their hymns efforts can be found in the following books:

Murray. Faith forever singing.

Wallace. The mystery telling.

Pratt. Whatever name or creed.

I use their creativity often in my weekly liturgies. These new hymns are taught through a Hymn of the Month – one new hymn a month sung every week for approx. four to five weeks – usually just ahead of the lectionary season. This way congregations are not belted over the head with new stuff, but gradually add to their stock of known sung hymns. Over the past six plus years, we have learnt more than 70 new, contemporary, theologically intelligent hymns which links what they know with what they believe. Many traditional hymns with their ancient cosmology, do not. And when you dig below the surface, this number of new hymns usually is larger than the so-called favourite old hymns they say they know and use.

But I have also been fortunate here in that the organists have not tried to rule it over me as to what can or can not be sung.

When we do sing a traditional hymn it is often introduced with words such as: (Some intro stuff, then)… As we sing this hymn we also acknowledge we have moved on in our theological thinking…

‘Thinking theologically… means more than just interpreting our given Orthodox biblical tradition and creedal statements. It also means being willing to think differently now than in the past. – Sallie McFague