Okay, why can't they just block embedding instead of telling you after you've embedded it that you can't show it on your site. For the second one, you have to click on it and view it on Youtube.

Mendalla

I used to be a part of a youth and young adult music group in my church. At one point, we were called, "Definitely Not the Sanctuary Choir" - lol! We performed a mixture of Christian and secular music both during the service and at other church functions. I remember singing Rise Again at our minister's engagement party, but I don't think we ever did it in church.

Some highlights of the songs we sang in church (all of which, I feel, could be good anthems or hymns) include: 

Another couple of songs that we didn't perform, but feel would fit the bill exceptionally well (one of which I have shared on Wondercafe before):

and this one, which can't be embedded:

As a huge Enya fan, Mendalla, I think many of her songs are worthy of being called hymns for their spiritual qualities.

This is one of my favourites:

MAY IT BE (With lyrics)

How about WIND BENEATH MY WINGS by Bette Midler

Or THE ROSE....

We have sung the Rose we are practicing prince of Egypt right now and boy are we having prblems with the Hebrew parts. Another one we recently sang was you Raise me Up  as for Hallelujah we used the music and put our own words into it to record our jjourney from the old building to the one we are in now.

I like "I want Tomorrow" by Enya as an anthem sort of thing, for reclaiming one's ancestry and heritage, and keeping it alive.

I also really like "Let it Go" by Luba as an anthem for being true to ones self, and siezing your personal power and freedom.

I just heard a song the other day, not sure when it came out, but it seemed suitable for a hymn.

Today I'm Gonna Try to Change the World by Johnny Reid

Waterfall - that song is one of my favourites. There's a beautiful video for it too that you can see if you go here: http://www.thefield.ca/content/directors/malandruccolo/today-im-gonna-try-and-change-the-world.shtml.

I didn't have any trouble getting the Enya piece to play.... 

Being Pagan my idea of hymns/ spiritual music probably differes a bit from what a lot of you would view as such.

A few of my favorites:

*Chevaliers de Sangreal (Robert Langdon's theme from Angels & Demons / The Da Vinci Code)

*The First Of Autumn (Enya)

*The Celts (Enya)

* Book of Days (Enya)

* Dante's Prayer (Loreena McKennitt)

*The Old Ways (Loreena McKennitt)

*Dark Night of the Soul (Loreena McKennitt)

*Baba Yetu (Christopher TIn - From game Civilzation)

One of my all-time favorite pieces of soundtrack music from any source (movies, tv, games) and a setting of the Lord's Prayer in Swahili to boot, so well-suited to being an anthem.

Mendalla

nifty thread, mendalla :3

I suppose Baba Yetu actually is a hymn but I didn't know that until ages after I first heard it.  I initally thought the words were just nonsensical sounds.

Yeah, it wasn't until my son and I got curious and found a thread about it on the Civ forums that we found out what the words were.

Mendalla

Well, if we're talking spiritual songs rather than hymns or anthems, which I think are all pretty different categories... I could add one or two spiritual songs...

Rowan, You might like this one:

Dead Can Dance: Song of the Stars

Let it go Sister! I just love the release of this song. Let it free your body let it move yer soul!