by Morning Reflections | Dec 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereNoel is a French word that means “birth of God,” which speaks to the mystery at the heart of Christmas.But the familiar carol called The First Noel is English through and through.No amount of research...
by Morning Reflections | Dec 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereOne of the world’s most beloved Christmas songs sprang from one of the world’s closest calls to nuclear oblivion.For 13 days in October 1962, the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union...
by Morning Reflections | Dec 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereThe Episcopal vicar Phillips Brooks was moved by his visit to the village of Bethlehem in 1865 – the same year America’s Civil War finally ground to a halt.Standing in the traditional Field of the...
by Morning Reflections | Dec 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereThe Horse and His Boy, the fifth book in C.S. Lewis’ children series called The Chronicles of Narnia, tells the story of a boy named Shasta.He doesn’t know it, but he is the twin son of a Narnian...
by Morning Reflections | Dec 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereOne of the world’s most popular Christmas songs actually started out as a She Done Me Wrong song.O Tannenbaum (or O Christmas Tree, as it is often sung in America) was written in 1824 by German...
