Writing on Hymns
'What makes a good hymn text?', The Hymn (Jan. 1985).
'Charles Wesley—a hymn writer for today', The Hymn (Oct. 1988). [Shorter version reprinted as 'Why Welsey still dominates our hymnbooks', Christian History (Aug. 1991); reprinted John Milton Magazine (Sept. 1993).]
A Flame of Love: A Personal Choice of Charles Wesley's Verse (London: Triangle, SPCK, 1987; 2nd ed. 2001).
Praying with the English Hymn Writers (London: Triangle, SPCK, 1989).
'Foreword', in J.R. Watson, An Annotated Anthology of Hymns (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).
'The Poet as Hymnwriter', in Leland Ryken (ed.), The Christian Imagination: Essays on Literature and the Arts (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 2002).
Snakes and Ladders—A Hymn Writer's Reflections (Occasional Paper 3rd ser., 1; Keswick: The Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 2009). Lecture at the Annual Conference.
'Hymns and songs in Chrstiain worship: past, present—and future?', Bulletin of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland (Jan. 2010).
'What can a hymn writer learn from a lyricist?', Bulletin of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland (July 2011).
Faith, Hymns and Poetry (Occasional Paper 3rd ser., 8; Keswick: The Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 2016). Lecture at the Annual Conference, 2013.
'A task for the Hymn Society: a consideration of the representation of hymn writers in the National Portrait Gallery', Bulletin of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland (Summer, 2013).
'The Penguin Book of Hymns: a starter for ten', The Penguin Collector (Dec. 2015).
'Sermon at launch of Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology', Bulletin of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland (Feb. 2014).
A Functional Art: Reflections of a Hymn Writer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).
'Foreword', in Stephen J. Poxon (ed.), Through the Year with Charles Wesley (Oxford: Lion Hudson, 2019).