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Christmas

Church Life

Boar’s Head Festivals Share the Epiphany Story

Greta Gaffin -
Costumed casts of up to 150, organ improvisations, and live animals bring a cherished holiday tradition to life at churches across the country.
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Bach’s Christmas Oratorio & the Coming of Christ

Francis Omondi -
Bach's Christmas Oratorio helps us inhabit joy and embrace the implications of the Incarnation, confronting a world which needs the savior.
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St. John, Witness to the Incarnate God

Joseph Mangina -
Matthew and Luke give us the infancy stories. John's Gospel offers a commentary that we might know that the baby is the Word of the Father.
History

Archives: Christmas 1900

Mark Michael -
A 104-year-old communicant in Philadelphia, Montreal’s first silk vestments, and “the beauty of holiness” at the Advent, Boston.
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Christmas & the Politics of Incarnation

Eugene R. Schlesinger -
To mistake Jesus's Incarnation, death, and resurrection for a purely spiritual reality is a misreading. The story leads to the public square.
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A Meditation on the Manger; A Longing for Paradise

Timothy Kimbrough -
Christmas may seem like an escapist refuge from the world’s pain. But this happens only when the manger is relegated to a sentimental detail.
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Nigeria’s Christmas in the Shadows

K.C. Nwajei -
Amid Islamist attacks and soaring inflation, Nigeria's primate urges against travel and lavish spending; still Christ's birth will be defiantly celebrated.
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A Simple Air or a Complex Canon

Robert Skirving -
John's Prologue, "In the beginning..." seems to have two voices, a soaring one and an earthly one. This Christmas, let's hear them both.
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God’s Family

Geoffrey Mackey -
In the Incarnation, God knows both the joy and hope along with the pain and challenge of being in a family.
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Christmas & Natality

Christopher Yoder -
To be human, means to be born of woman. In being born, we receive life from others. God not only set this is motion, he has acted within it.
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