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Four spiritual realities – Incarnation

Posted on December 7, 2025 by Kerry

Four Spiritual Realities pdf The gospel — the mystery of the ages now revealed in Christ — consists of four wondrous realities. “Gospel” literally means “joy news.” These four wondrous realities are joyful “mysteries” in the sense that for each … Continue reading →

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The Christmas Party, by George MacDonald

Posted on December 19, 2024 by Kerry

Download PDF of “The Christmas Party,” by George MacDonald. Introduction “The Christmas Party,” by George MacDonald, comprises chapter X of Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood (1867). MacDonald wrote across multiple genres. First and foremost he was a literary critic presenting … Continue reading →

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Heaven and Nature Sing

Posted on November 3, 2024 by Kerry

From my teen years, whenever my home-town church would have a hymn sing — even in July — I remember calling out from one of the back rows the request to sing Joy to the World (hymnary.org): Joy to the … Continue reading →

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Happy Golden Days

Posted on November 1, 2024 by Kerry

The Arcadian Wild’s new recording, Happy Golden Days, is out! While traveling on I-35 today, I listened to it on loop for several hours. What an incredible selection of songs, so joyously expressed in an uplifting Arcadian Wild mode. It … Continue reading →

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Arcadian Wild, Welcome Reframed

Posted on October 19, 2024 by Kerry

One of our top favorite musical groups is The Arcadian Wild (their official “about” page; my previous post). They’re “newgrass,” neither bluegrass nor pop nor country. We heard them in OKC a couple years ago, and went again a week … Continue reading →

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Winter’s Moon

Posted on November 4, 2022 by Kerry

From Loreena McKennitt’s forthcoming new live album Under A Winter’s Moon. Loreena has released a single of the oldest-known Canadian Christmas hymn, “Huron Carol.” It’s the first time she has ever recorded the song, written in 1642 by a Jesuit … Continue reading →

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Feast of the Annunciation

Posted on April 9, 2022 by Kerry

In the church calendar March 25 is the Feast of the Annunciation, the annual remembrance of Gabriel’s message to Mary according to the gospel of Luke 1:26-38. Here’s a carol that tells the story from Moya Brennan’s wonderful Christmas album, … Continue reading →

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George MacDonald Christmas Reading

Posted on December 12, 2021 by Kerry

So great to see the George MacDonald Society flourishing with activities like this. Hopefully this is the first of what may become an annual gathering this time of year. Thanks to those who organized it, to Malcolm Guite for welcoming … Continue reading →

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Poetry for Christmas and Easter

Posted on December 10, 2021 by Kerry

Last spring, Candace and I read aloud Malcolm Guite’s anthology, Word in the Wilderness: A Poem a Day for Lent and Easter. We found the poems deeply moving, and Malcolm’s essays opened them up for us both as literature and … Continue reading →

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Brightest and Best

Posted on December 3, 2021 by Kerry

Since we first encountered this song on John McCutcheon’s Winter Solstice album (1984; Apple Music), this has been one of our favorite Christmas songs. Here’s the Magruder Lassies version 😃. In the above music video by Ricky Skaggs, Keith Getty, … Continue reading →

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Star in the Night

Posted on November 28, 2021 by Kerry

In the post Favorite family Christmas movies, one of the video shorts we mention there is this classic from 1945. We first discovered it as an extra on the DVD for Christmas in Connecticut (1945), a more familiar Christmas classic … Continue reading →

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Don’t you want to thank someone?

Posted on November 28, 2021 by Kerry

Now I can see the world is charged It’s glimmering with promises Written in a script of stars Dripping from prophets’ lips But still, my thirst is never slaked I am hounded by a restlessness Eaten by this endless ache … Continue reading →

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