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Do You Hear What I Hear?

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here One 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 squared off in the Cuban Missile Crisis.  At the height of Cold War anxiety, Soviet premier… Read more »

The Little Drummer Boy

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Bing Crosby and David Bowie singing a Christmas duet? Crosby, the World War II-era crooner, was skeptical. What he knew of British rock didn’t exactly enchant him. Bowie dragged his heels, especially when he found out they would be singing a song he couldn’t stand.  But Bowie’s mother was a huge Crosby… Read more »