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” . . . to pray or not to pray, that is the question . . .” with apologies to Wm. Shakespeare.
“He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who lovest best All things both great and small. (Coleridge – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner pt 7) Those opening words, were the words of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from his poem ‘The…
STARS, SPACE-CRAFT AND CHRISTMAS HOPE
One of my many memories of Christmases past is from 1968. It was hearing the astronaut and commander of Apollo 8, Colonel Frank Borman, reading the opening words of the book of Genesis as his spacecraft and its three-man crew orbited the Moon and he looked down on this “good earth”. This was the precursor…
Who was there? The Dramatis Personae of the Nativity.
I. Who was There: It is Advent, the time of preparation for the festival of Christmas. At its heart is the story of the birth of Jesus, as told in the gospels of Matthew and Luke, and it is a story retold in that great seasonal tradition, the Nativity play. Advent is the time for…
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