An abiding childhood memory is the recitation from Luke’s Gospel by the character Linus in the animated television special A Charlie Brown Christmas. It almost never happened. This article reveals how Charlie Brown’s creator, Charles Schulz was opposed at virtually every step of the process of creating the special by television executives, who, even in …
When I downloaded two albums by Ordinary Time earlier this year I left a third recording of theirs for later. In The Town Of David is a collection of Advent and Christmas themed songs, all recorded in a style of acoustic bluegrass folk. Each year I like to expand my repertoire of classic Christmas songs …
Turns out Sufjan Stevens is the most popular musician I’d never heard of. Anyway, Songs For Christmas the compilation of his five Christmas themed EPs, is available for US$12 at his bandcamp site. That’s 42 tracks for $12. If you want to own just one Christmas album, this pretty much fills the bill. The recordings …
Whether your song selections in December will reflect the theme of Advent or not, the analysis which Bobby Gilles provides of Charles Wesley’s hymn Come Thou Long Expected Jesus is informative and instructional about what makes an effective song for corporate praise and why. What is Advent? It’s the season of preparation for Christ’s coming …
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