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Like a Child The Rev. Dr. Stephen Bauman Our program in Washington Heights, El Nido (The Nest), has begun well. We’ve attracted a fast-growing roster of young mothers with children 0-3 years of age, and our Reading Corner project has generated a lot of interest for stimulating literacy. A couple of months ago a mother⦠Read More
Like a Child Brian Pinter “Like a child and a friend Jesus comes.” In the seasons of Advent and Christmas, I often contemplate the fact that Jesus did not come into the world as a superhero with guns blazing. God didn’t overpower the world, crushing its freedom, and imposing God’s will while everyone stands around⦠Read More
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming Scroll down for to view the hymn and listen to the audio. The Rev. Leslie Houseworth-Fields These words from the 15th century German hymn “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming” remind me of the 20th century poem by Tupac Shakur, “The Rose that Grew from Concrete”: Did you hear about⦠Read More
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming Scroll down for to view the hymn and listen to the audio. Kathryn Carroll The rose was a pre-Christian symbol of veneration and since, became a symbol of Mary, great with expectancy, fully in bloom. The sweetness of this hymn is a fitting match for the fragrance of its subject⦠Read More
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence Scroll down for to view the hymn and listen to the audio. Chad Gurley “Let all mortal flesh keep silence, and with fear and trembling stand; ponder nothing earthly minded, for with blessing in his hand, Christ our God to earth descendeth…” Once upon a life when I was an⦠Read More
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence Scroll down for to view the hymn and listen to the audio. Pastor Mickey Correa The festive echo of the coming holiday season is riddled with many sights, scents and sounds. The sights are plentiful: menorahs, kinaras, Christmas trees & wreaths, Santa & reindeer, nativity scenes and even the parodic⦠Read More
My Soul Gives Glory to My God Scroll down for to view the hymn and listen to the audio. The Rev. Dr. Stephen Bauman Mary’s song is presented in the minor key here, which lends a quality of introspection—less triumph, more soulful gratitude. She is still passionate, purposeful and heartfelt, but humbled by the enormity of⦠Read More
My Soul Gives Glory to My God Scroll down for to view the hymn and listen to the audio. The Rev. Dr. Violet Lee “Joy, Unspeakable!” And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant. For behold, from⦠Read More
Tell Out, My Soul Scroll down for to view the hymn and listen to the audio. The Rev. Dr. Stephen Bauman I have always felt the built-in incongruity in our beloved Christmas story between the warm sentiment of a young mother giving birth and the words that are ascribed to her in Luke’s gospel (1:46b-55). The⦠Read More
To a Maid Engaged to Joseph Scroll down for to view the hymn and listen to the audio. Kathryn Carroll I think that many 20th Century Christians, particularly Protestants, were not formed with the same devotion to Mary as were our Catholic and earlier Christian forbears. The cultural times seemed not to know how to deal⦠Read More