There are many songs, carols and hymns that are related to Christmas that I thoroughly love. I especially love them in new and exciting formats or presentations. My favorite being acapella.
It’s an advertisement for the Kodak Vision3 500T 5219, but it is so much more.
Tonight is both the first night of Hanukkah, as well as Christmas Eve. Seven of the eight days of Hannukkah fall on the first 7 of the 12 days of Christmas.
Christ Church Cathedral in Vancouver BC, is engaged in a years-long renovation of their historic Vancouver building. The most recent phase of the renovation has enlarged the size of the parish kitchen, installed a new zinc roof, power-washed the masonry exterior and erected a stained-glass bell tower with 4 new bronze bells.
Next month, on 6 JAN 2017, the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America will have been in full communion for 16 years. One of the groups of members of both denominations to seek to take advantage of the opportunities opened with Called to Common Mission were the Episcopalians and Lutherans in Big Sky MT.
A Christmas commercial for a Scandinavian electronics company peeks in on the holiday gathering of a family which includes a transgender teen. While other family members share Christmas treats and go about enjoying their Christmas gifts, a male-to-female teen sits uncomfortably off to the side.
After a period of discernment and mediation, the Standing Committee of the Diocese and the Right Reverend W. Douglas Hahn have reached an agreement regarding his tenure as the Bishop Diocesan. On March 10, 2017, Bishop Hahn will tender his resignation as Bishop of Lexington to the Presiding Bishop.
Back in AUG we reported on the girl’s softball team in the Willamette OR area that was raffling off a donated AR – rifle. Father Jeremy Lucas won the raffle and the AR – 15, which he intended to have formed into an art object. His plans for the rifle changed over the last few months and he gathered with his flock in the parish parking lot under a few tents to have his “sword beaten into a plowshare.”
WARNING – Advent purists, Christmas Carol ahead! On the evening of 3 DEC 2016, 1254 town folk, dressed as shepherds, wise men and angels gathered on a local green to assemble the largest living Nativity. By doing so the town stole the title from the previous record set by folks in Utah.
The TEC Office of Public Affairs kicked off a whole Season of Advent resources back on Sunday, 20 NOV, Christ the King. Called Make Ready the Feast, the resources offer a scripture citation and a recipe for every day of Advent.