For the past three weeks here, we’ve been listening to the angels of Christmas. First actually before he appears to Mary the angel Gabriel appears to Jesus’ uncle Zechariah with the good news that he and his wife Elizabeth, though they are VERY old, will have the son they have longed for their…
When All We Can Do Is Sing This past fall we observed the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. And so there were the expected reviews in the news media of the events leading up to, surrounding, and following that remarkable and largely unforeseen event. One of the items that was routinely left out of those reviews, however, was…