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'Almighty Babe, whose tender arms can force all foes to fly'

Posted by cicw

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

This Christmas we’ll be dwelling on these words from Robert Southwell’s provocative poem ‘A Child My Choice,’ which was sung in this year’s Lessons and Carols concert: Alas! he weeps, he sighs, he pants, yet do his angels sing;out of his tears, his sighs, and throbs, doth bud a joyful spring.Almighty Babe, whose tender arms [...]

GR Press on Bellamy congregation

Posted by cicw

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

The Grand Rapids Press has this article and photo gallery from a visit to the Ionia Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility, where a new congregation is worshiping regularly. Dressed in blue-and-orange prison suits and tennis shoes, the men came forward for Holy Communion singing an old spiritual. “Hallelujah, we’re going to see the king,” they sang [...]

prayers for trip to Argentina

Posted by cicw

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Our prayers are with our colleague Robert Nordling and his Calvin music students as they travel to Argentina to meet with Horacio Vivares, who will be presenting at Symposium 2009. Here’s the announcement from the Calvin Music Department: While in Argentina, the group will work with an Argentinian composer and music professor, Horacio Vivares to [...]

Image's Top Ten of 2008

Posted by cicw

Friday, December 19th, 2008

check out Image journal’s Top Ten of 2008.

new installment of 'Book of Praises' by Roger Wagner

Posted by cicw

Friday, December 19th, 2008

From Image Update: The Book of Praises is a new translation of the Psalms by Roger Wagner. Each psalm is illustrated with wood engravings and paintings in an arrangement of the English and Hebrew text. Book Two of the Psalter, Psalms 42-72, is the long awaited second installment of a project that is eventually intended [...]

History of the Christmas Tree

Posted by cicw

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Christian History has a new blog, and gives this history of Christianity’s adoption of that previously pagan symbol, the Christmas tree. Also browse this book at Google Books: In the Fullness of Time: A Historian Looks at Christmas, Easter, and the Early Church by Paul L. Maier (Kregel Publications, 1997).

'Peace on Earth' nativity scene

Posted by cicw

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Jimmy McCarty reflects on this and other nativity scenes.

Alban Weekly on the importance of place

Posted by cicw

Friday, December 19th, 2008

From Alban Weekly: Congregations are born from a generative spark of interaction between stories of faith and stories of place. … I have come to believe that ‘Where am I?’ and ‘What is happening here?’ are among the most profound questions congregational leaders can ask. This vocabulary of place or location is often used metaphorically [...]

'Incarnate' at catapult

Posted by cicw

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Insightful reflections on the theme of Incarnate at catapult magazine, including this essay: The bit of information we have about God becoming a baby says a truckload about what kind of God that would have to be. Those moments, the first ones, of coming through the birth canal and onto a bed of hay, speak [...]

Packing Party

Posted by cicw

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Yesterday we had a packing party to get a number of donated instraments ready to go with a group of Calvin students down to Argentina.

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Archive for December, 2008

'Almighty Babe, whose tender arms can force all foes to fly'

GR Press on Bellamy congregation

prayers for trip to Argentina

Image's Top Ten of 2008

new installment of 'Book of Praises' by Roger Wagner

History of the Christmas Tree

'Peace on Earth' nativity scene

Alban Weekly on the importance of place

'Incarnate' at catapult

Packing Party

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