Pausing for the Glory of the Lord

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You can keep your “Hallelujah Chorus,” Georg Handel.

Really. I mean, it’s lovely and all, and tons of fun to sing. (Whether you sing it poorly or well, and for most of the past twenty-five years or so, I’ve been in the former at annual Advent Messiah sing-alongs.) The words and music are stirring and the reverberation on that “jah” is amazing. Fo...