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December 24, 2015
A personal note at Christmas
Dear friends: Another year is coming to a close, and it’s closing upon a world racked with violence, fear, and evil. But, as always, it closes with the boundless promise and the remarkable grounds for optimism represented by Christmas. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s words come to mind, written in the darkest days [Read More...]
Music of Christmas 28
An exquisitely beautiful choral version of today’s Christmas hymn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsVnv... This is a Christian folk hymn from the American South. It was first published at Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1811, and has been called a “white spiritual.” That aspect is clearly brought out in these two quite different videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu9Kj... [Read More...]
Music of Christmas 27
Responding to my request for a Cuban Christmas song, my Havana-born daughter-in-law suggests this one, Felicidades, by the Cuban-American singer Gloria Estefan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cORUl... Cuba proper, under the rule of the Brothers Castro, hasn’t been a very favorable place for Christmas meditations or celebrations, so it’s fitting, I suppose, that we turn for [Read More...]
Jonah Goldberg on “The War on Christmas”
A good, fun article (excerpted from a book) by a good writer with whom I almost always agree — which, now that I think of it, makes him a superb writer: http://www.nationalreview.com/article... Posted from Richmond, Virginia
Music of Christmas 26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOQRt... I have travelled many moonless nights Cold and weary, with a babe inside. And I wonder what I’ve done. Holy Father, you have come And chosen me now To carry your son.I am waiting in a silent prayer. I am frightened by the load I bear. In a world as cold [Read More...]
New Testament 367 (et finis)
John 21:1-25 Compare Matthew 16:28; 26:30-35; Mark 9:1; 14:26-31; Luke 9:27; 22:31-34, 39; John 8:51-52; 13:36-38; 16:32; 18:1 In this chapter, which some have called an “appendix” to the gospel of John, we see Peter’s threefold affirmation of his love for Jesus (which may have been intended to compensate for this threefold [Read More...]
“Ishmael, Our Brother”
I can’t recall whether I shared this link before, but this article is a nice, sympathetic introduction to Islam written by Jim Mayfield, a Latter-day Saint political scientist (and one-time mission president) who devoted much of his career to the Islamic world. It was published in the Ensign: https://www.lds.org/ensign/1979/06/is.... Posted from [Read More...]
“Three Christmas questions, as answered by science”
These are actually fairly interesting, and one of them would serve well in a sacrament meeting talk: http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2015... Posted from Richmond, Virginia
“We needed Christ to become one of us”
My Christmas column for this year: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86... Posted from Richmond, Virginia
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