Advent & Christmas Music 2023 Selection
There is so much beauty and joy to behold this time of year. Here are some of Gord’s favourite selections from around the world.
Advent & Christmas Music 2023 Selection
bringing heaven to earth
Joy to the World (Live from The Chosen) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vnB8xAqzjE
Best Classical Christmas Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9ZNhQ2bCpM
Little Drummer Boy, Pentatonix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ_MGWio-vc&list=RDQM8IdKZm8eLYU&start_radio=1
Handel’s Messiah at Grace Cathedral https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-QV_I-xseA&list=PLmbakg- rAnFgkTU61I0HZEt8lmIfBKkWI
Carol of the Bells, Voices of Lee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHCIIBD3I1k
The Piano Guys Christmas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5mdybeyLVc&list=RDQM8IdKZm8eLYU&index=2
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Celtic Women in Dublin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw38pGhPXIk&list=RDQM8IdKZm8eLYU&index=9
Trans-Siberian Orchestra—Christmas Canon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cP26ndrmtg&list=RDQM8IdKZm8eLYU&index=12
For King & Country, O Come, O Come, Emmanuel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkvYR4BcHYc&list=RDQM8IdKZm8eLYU&index=13
Carols from Choir of King’s College https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zieoBKkN9qE
Anúna: The Coventry Carol (arr. Michael McGlynn): a whisper of Paradise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wit-jGD4wCw
Anúna – The Wexford Carol (solo Aisling McGlynn) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgGu1I0n-ec
The Oxford Choir Christmas Carols 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CMm4Ki82EI
Joy to the World, 51st African Children’s Choir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R65ekwEmXBE
For King and Country, Little Drummer Boy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzEX3QMuVPM
German Christmas Songs: Deutsche Advents & Weihnachtslieder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE-xk_pUK54
Carol of the Bells, Libera Official https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZF4uZiGeho&list=PLJOOOM1_Vojmi5pZElp5a_gyl5udKplC7
The King’s Singers, Gaudete https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQyrD7U5aNE
noël :: anne porter
When snow is shaken
From the balsam trees
And they’re cut down
And brought into our houses
When clustered sparks
Of many-colored fire
Appear at night
In ordinary windows
We hear and sing
The customary carols
They bring us ragged miracles
And hay and candles
And flowering weeds of poetry
That are loved all the more
Because they are so common
But there are carols
That carry phrases
Of the haunting music
Of the other world
A music wild and dangerous
As a prophet’s message
Or the fresh truth of children
Who though they come to us
From our own bodies
Are altogether new
With their small limbs
And birdlike voices
They look at us
With their clear eyes
And ask the piercing questions
God alone can answer.
Christmas Reads 2023
the gifted author keeps on giving life to mind and heart
Abigail Favale – The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory. (March Speaker)
Christopher Watkin, Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible’s Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture. (February Speaker)
Stephen Hassan, The Cult of Trump.
Andrew Wilson, Remaking the Modern World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West.
Fleming Rutledge, The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ.
Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as a Sign of Hope.
Uche Anizor, Overcoming Apathy: Gospel Hope for Those Who Struggle to Care. (Christianity Today 2023 Book of the Year)
John Goldingay, The Book of Jeremiah.
Nicholas Wolterstorff, In this World of Wonders: Memoir of a Life of Learning.
Matthew Lynch – Flood and Fury: Old Testament Violence and the Shalom of God
Peter J. Leithart, On Earth as in Heaven: Theopolis Fundamentals.
Loren Wilkinson and Peter Harris, Circles and the Cross: Cosmos, Consciousness, Christ, and the Human Place in Creation. (Regent book launch in January 2024)
Micah Mattix & Sally Thomas, eds., Christian Poetry in America Since 1940: An Anthology.
Mitri Raheb, Faith in the Face of Empire: The Bible Through Palestinian Eyes.
Hans Boersma – Pierced By Love: Divine Reading with the Christian Tradition.
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