When I did the programming for Don Maclean's Sunday morning programme on Radio 2

(to be more precise, when I applied for the job of producer and put together a running order for the programme as part of the interview process (I didn't get the job))

I had three main categories: devotional music and its derivatives; pop songs with some explicitly religious content; and songs of "non-specific uplift" (my own term for it). I'd say that "Ready for the Storm" is definitely a song of non-specific uplift.

As for whether non-religious songs should be sung in religious settings, speaking as an agnostic I'm with Joe - who the hell are we, as non-churchgoers, to tell churchgoers what they can and can't sing? If people at the church think it doesn't make the grade that's another matter, but I think they're the ones who have to decide.

In my local church, when I was a teenager, the musical wing of the youth group got the gig of playing through communion. One week they were on a John Denver kick and did "Goodbye Again"; the good people of the church thought that was a bit much for a Sunday morning. They didn't get any complaints about "I wish we'd all been ready", another of their favourites, although its message is a hell of a lot more heterodox than the John Denver song's. I guess that's the Church of England for you.