Richard Leach
Richard Leach is an American hymn writer and poet.
He received a B.A from Bowdoin College in 1974, and an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1978. He was a United Church of Christ pastor in Connecticut from 1978 to 1999. He began writing hymns in 1987. In 1999 he left the ministry of the United Church of Christ and became a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He is a member of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada.Published works
- Tuned for Your Sake, Selah Publishing Co., 2007
- New Harmony, A Harp of Thousand Strings, Selah Publishing Co., 2006
- Come and Hear the Blessing, Hymns on the Beatitudes, Abingdon Press, 2006
- Honey from the Rock, Selah Publishing Co., 2005
- We Sing the Shoreline, Selah Publishing Co., 2004
- Pray Then Like This, A Hymn Cycle on the Lord’s Prayer, Selah Publishing Co., 2002
- Go Worship at Emmanuel’s Feet, Selah Publishing Co., 2001
- Memory, Take the Hand of Hope, Selah Publishing Co., 2000
- Carpenter, Why Leave the Bench, Selah Publishing Co., 1996
- Over the Waves of Words, Selah Publishing Co., 1996
- Feel the Spirit in the Kicking, Selah Publishing Co., 1995
