IRD's Jeff Walton joins in worship at three very different Anglican churches across the Christmas season, finding treasures at each.
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The Jouyssance Early Music Ensemble performs "Convidando esta la noche," the closing song for "Spirit Child." (NCR screenshot/YouTube/Matthew Ian Welch).
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How was your Christmas? For that matter, how was your birthday? I pray both were good and the next ones are even better. For a young girl my wife teaches at...
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The anticipated wait for the annual holidays was once the most indomitable feeling I ever held. The feeling when attempting to fall into a deep slumber,...
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Two elves preside over a post-Christmas meeting with the Mr. and Mrs. Santa quorum and mice delegation in attendance. That's how it appeared as I...
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The new year lumbers in accompanied by dark skies and rain. In a world so messy and muddled, I...
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The ugly rubber tubs are stacked in the house, begging to be filled with dancing reindeer and plastic icicles. Yet the Christmas tree remains, its singular...
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The lights are dimming on this year's Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. The 11-ton Norway Spruce received a light dusting of snow on its final day before...
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Instead of my smartphone, I used two 35mm film cameras to capture the streets of London draped in festive lights, and it's one of the best decisions I've...
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“We are never doing this again!” my mom announces. She's been saying this every year for the last 25, when we first started hosting the Christmas Eve party...
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