James Hart Brumm
is a Minister of the Word and Sacrament
in the Reformed Church in America (RCA), serving as Pastor and Teacher
of the Blooming Grove Reformed Church in DeFreestville, New York. He has
served as an adjunct professor of RCA history and worship at New Brunswick
Theological Seminary, at St. Bernard’s Institute, and the Capital
Region Theological Center in Albany, New York, and as Book Review Editor
for The Hymn, journal of the Hymn Society in the United States &
Canada, and as moderator of the RCA Commission on History. James holds
degrees from Westminster Choir College, New Brunswick Seminary, and Drew
University. He has written articles for The Hymn, Reformed
Worship, the Bulletin of the Hymn Society of Great Britain
and Ireland, and The Church Herald (the RCA denominational
magazine). He is also the author of Singing the Lord’s Song: A
History of English-Language Hymnals of the Reformed Church in America
(RCA Historical Society, 1990) and editor of both Equipping the
Saints: the Synod of New York, 1800-2000 (William B. Eerdman’s
Publishing Company, 2000) and Liturgy Among the Thorns: Essays on
Worship in the Reformed Church in America (Eerdman’s, 2007). He was
part of the committee that prepared the hymnal supplement Sing! A New
Creation (CRC Publications, 2001).
James is married to Kathleen Hart Brumm, a pastor,
children’s choir clinician, author, composer, and educator. They live
in DeFreestville, New York, across the Hudson River from Albany, with
their son, Christopher, and their dogs, Jessie and Pumpkin. |