With the movie about Freddy Mercury and Queen having brought new generations of listeners, here’s the Christmas themed ‘Bethlehemian Rhapsody’ which I’m sure some of you haven’t heard before. Unlike a lot of Christian appropriations of popular music (I’m looking at you, Hallelujah) this one isn’t lame or inept. This puppet themed ‘cover’ video even …

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Fleming Rutledge writes about John the Baptist and what she terms “apocalyptic transvision — that vision given to the church that sees through the appearances of this world to the blazing power and holiness of the coming of the Lord.” …. It has occurred to me that the image of Jesus as the cosmic Judge …

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