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Whether you are meeting at church for a carol service, or gathering with friends and family around a piano, singing Christmas carols always brings a sense of joy and wonder to the heart.
The tradition of singing Christmas carols can be dated as far b...
DATE: Dec 23, 2006
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Dear Friends,
I have recently come across a beautiful book of Christmas poems by Ann Weems entitled ?Kneeling in Bethlehem?. I would like to share one of these poems with you, it is entitled ?In December Darkness?.
The whole world waits in December d...
DATE: Dec 23, 2006
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ach Christmas I suggest ?a perfect Christmas gift,? one which will enable readers to draw closer to Jesus, whose birth is being celebrated, and will hopefully be a transforming experience for the giver and receiver.
This year the perfect Christmas gi...
DATE: Dec 23, 2006
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ne popular Christmas jingle has these lyrics, ?Tis the season to be jolly?.
A number of Bermudians seem to have paraphrased those words with ?Tis the season to travel?.... some to be with relatives, others to get away from them. The airline and trave...
DATE: Dec 23, 2006
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I have of late, had a little more time to think and reflect upon a variety of things. This is because I have taken up walking on a regular basis, on the advice of my doctor. So every day, except one, quite early in the morning, before going up to the...
DATE: Dec 23, 2006
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n 1891, Robert Louis Stevenson the Scottish, author of classics like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Kidnapped, gave a rather odd gift to the daughter of one of his friends, a Mr. Henry Ide.
Mr. Ide once joked that Christmas was not the happiest day of t...
DATE: Dec 23, 2006
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In 1891, Robert Louis Stevenson the Scottish, author of classics like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Kidnapped, gave a rather odd gift to the daughter of one of his friends, a Mr. Henry Ide.
Mr. Ide once joked that Christmas was not the happiest day of ...
DATE: Dec 23, 2006
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George Washington served on the vestry of The Falls Church, along with George Mason in the 1760s, both of whom contributed generously to the construction of the historic Anglican church which stands today. After the American Revolution, the British A...
DATE: Dec 16, 2006
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ALBANY, New York (AP) — Courtney Kuehn went to a Hmong wedding and — surprise! — tradition dictated a toast to her old college roommate. Paul Purdy went to synagogue with a Jewish girlfriend and accidentally stood for the Mourner’s Kaddish.Such trans...
DATE: Dec 16, 2006
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — In 1905 France passed a landmark law declaring a clean break between church and state. Riots erupted and a papal encyclical denounced the act as a “most pernicious error”.Such extreme passions cooled long ago, but the core quest...
DATE: Dec 16, 2006
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