We once more celebrate Christmas Day, with the popular and commercialised figures such as of ‘Santa Clause’ – or the Coca-Cola man, as I sometimes call him, after those television advertisements – and reindeer, and mistletoe and wine, and children singing Christian rhyme. I’m really glad, there are still children singing Christian rhyme, because asContinue reading “Giving and receiving (Christmas Day)”
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Supplying divine worship (Sunday XXXII of Ordered time)
One of my favourite Christmas carols is In the bleak mid-winter, and I can’t easily sing the last bit without choking up. If you know it, it is the song of the Christian soul before the Christmas crib, saying, ‘What can I give to You, poor though I am? if I were a shepherd, IContinue reading “Supplying divine worship (Sunday XXXII of Ordered time)”