Christmas is full of the celebratory sounds of music that echo the joyous fifty days of Christmastide. This music is particularly well suited to choirs and orchestral arrangements in western culture. Here is a small selection to draw you into the richness of the season.
Read MorePeace seems illusive. And yet, every Christmas season, we cling to the hope of it, search for the sight of it, hold it, if only momentarily, within our hearts, and pray for a world of it. Here is Maya Angelou’s poem for it accompanied by children’s imaginings of it from all over the world.
Read MoreThe Kingdom Choir, a collective from London, England sings performs and records songs that inspire and unify people. In December 2020, The Kingdom Choir held a very special performance at The Treehouse Hotel, dedicated to all NHS staff who have worked above and beyond this year in caring for those suffering from COVID19.
Read MoreWe have Matthew's creative/fictitious genealogy of Jesus (Matt 1: 1 - 17) and we have Epiphany's story of the wandering Zoroastrian priests and the slaughter that followed (Matt. 2: 1 - 23). In both cases, Matthew is responding to the genealogy that the Roman Empire claimed for Augustus Caesar. Context. Context. Context.
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