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Life itself is grace
Digging for our advent devotional yesterday I also found my friend Joel Armstrong‘s recent book Wired (most of our books are still packed for lack of shelving). I kept it out — I’d been thinking of the...
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Music to celebrate the incarnation scant in churches?
Another reason for high church: The liturgy dictates the service to a degree, and therefore you’re more likely to actually sing songs that eagerly await the incarnation during the Advent season, and...
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Glædelig Jul!
Jesus Christ the Apple Tree lyrics in a 1897 republication of 1797 printing One of my favorite Christmas carols of late isn’t exactly a Christmas carol but is traditionally sung on Christmas Eve. Jesus...
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Christmas II
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYexxEAl8Io] Filed under: Advent, Christmas
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Christmas III
A CNN story via InternetMonk, a commercialized Christmas is bringing Christ to China: It is even Christmas in China these days. And while we continue to complain here in the West about the...
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Christmas IV
A handmade Christmas Our tree, exponentially smaller than last year’s beautiful giantess, boasted handmade ornaments solely this year. Some we made, some our grandparents made, some from our childhood,...
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Christmas VI
During this season of extravagance I’m often reminded again — even in my tiny house with our two beat up old cars — how blessed I am and how wasteful the U.S. is as a culture. This waste bothers me...
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Christmas VIII
I received a few books for Christmas including The Kiln Book — on how to build kilns — and Asphalt Nation by Jane Holtz Kay. I’ve begun reading Asphalt Nation and, not surprisingly, it’s pretty...
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Advent
Wait for the Lord (Taize Community) Wait For the Lord, whose day is near Wait for the Lord, keep watch, take heart Filed under: Advent
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Christmas Eve
TITLE: “他們沒有地方投宿” (“There was No Place for Them to Stay…”) ARTIST: 白慧群 (Bai Huiqun, Pai Hui-ch’un) INSCRIPTION(S): 白慧群敬寫 (Drawn by Bai Huiqun) MEDIUM: Chinese watercolor on silk; mounted as hanging...
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