Category Archives: Advent

December 25, 2022 · 7:49 am

AdventWord 2022 – December 25 – #Emmanuel

Emmanuel. God with us. If God is with us, any photo would work to express Emmanuel. I chose several that show working for justice, loving kindness, and walking humbly with God by visiting elected representatives, advocating, making a public witness, and amplifying other voices.

Photo 1 – New York delegation at Ecumenical Advocacy Days 2019, Washington, DC.

Photo 2 – Advocacy postcards for immigration justice, Whitestone, NY – 2018

Photo 3 – Standing Rock, SD – 2016

Photo 4 – Whitestone, NY – 2015

Photo 5 – Louisville, Ky – May 1, 2021

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Advent Word 2022 – December 24 #birth

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December 24, 2022 · 9:51 am
December 23, 2022 · 7:49 pm

23 December 2022

Walking. Apartment.
Go Tell It on the Mountain – The Blind Boys of Alabama
Angels We Have Heard on High – Aretha Franklin
O Little Town of Bethlehem – Dolly Parson
Feliz Navidad – Agua Clara
We Are Christmas – Spellman Glee Club
O Come All Ye Faithful – The Chieftains
Silent Night – Darlene Silversmith
I Feel the Christmas Spirit – The Indigo Girls
Angels from the Realms of Glory – Bill Carter and the Presbybop Quartet
Once in Royal David’s City – Eric Rigler
In the Winter’s Pale – Tim Story
Do You Hear What I Hear – Eileen Ivers
Some Quiet Night – david m. bailey
Home This Christmas – Tom Jackson
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel/People Look East Melissa DuPuy, Russell Davis & Deanie Richardson

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December 23, 2022 · 2:18 pm

AdventWord 2022 – December 23 – #restore

Great conversation about how to restore people with the Rev. Dr. Don Shriver, president emeritus at Union Theological Seminary, and the Rev. Stanley Chimeysa, prison chaplain from the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian in Malawi.

They are leading thinkers and practitioners of restorative justice.

Their thinking and acting is moving toward transformative justice.

Photo: February 11, 2019; Manhattan, New York; not sure who took the photo. Obviously not me. There were several other people present.

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December 22, 2022 · 4:52 pm

22 December 2022

Walking. Apartment.
O Little Town of Bethlehem – Dolly Parton
Silent Night, Holy Night – The Piano Guys
What Child Is This – Michael Hedges
King Jesus Hath a Garden – Clare College Singers & Orchestra
Green Sleeves – Joanne Shenandoah
The Hard Road – Jonathan Maracle
I Saw Three Ships – Celtic Harp Soundscapes
Snowflake – Little Windows
The Gift – Tom Jackson
Christmas Must Be Tonight – The Band
O Cone Emmanuel – Rosemary Beland
I Believe in Father Christmas – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Mary Had a Baby – Bruce Cockburn
Away in the Manger – Darlene Silversmith
This Clearness of Light – William Ackerman
With Mary Let My Soul Rejoice – Princeton Seminary Choir
Journey of the Angels – Enya

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December 22, 2022 · 10:35 am

AdventWord 2022 – December 22 – #choose

With thanks to Doc and Robert and all the people I do not know who choose hope and life and love by helping young people think through their choices.

This poster is from the first Teen Forum. The audience has since expanded to include all young people age 13-18.

Photo: 19 October 2022; The Bronx, New York

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December 21, 2022 · 9:21 am

AdventWord 2022 – December 21 – #obedience

With thanks to my friend Jimmie Hawkins for the profound reminder that obedience to higher principles, values, and visions often requires disobedience to unjust and immoral laws, rules and regulations. Order Unbroken and Unbowed.

Photo: 25 June, 2022; Louisville, Kentucky

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December 20, 2022 · 10:38 pm

20 December 2022

Walking. Germantown.
Go Tell It on the Mountain – Dolly Parton
Carol of the Bells – Black Violin
Christmas in the Trenches – John McCutcheon
Deck the Halls – Moya Brennan
All through the Night – Joanne Shenandoah
The Rebel Jesus – The Chieftains
Wonderful Counselor – Little Windows
In the Bleak Midwinter – James Taylor
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen – Rosemary Beland
Early on One Christmas Morning – Bruce Cockburn
Silent Night – Ray Lynch
The Hounds of Winter – Sting
Hallelujah – Quincy Jones, Mervyn Waren, Michael O. Jackson, Various Artists
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence – Bill Carter And The Presbybop Quartet

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December 20, 2022 · 8:06 am

AdventWord 2022 – December 20 – #hear

It took 45 years, but thanks to friends Leslie and DinaDeen, I finally saw Sweet Honey in the Rock in concert at Symphony Space in New York.

Recordings I had and had heard often – albums, cassettes, CDs, downloads – and those are great. Still nothing matches their performance especially when heard and viewed with good friends.

Photo: 16 March 2019, New York, New York, by DinaDeen

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December 19, 2022 · 7:37 pm

19 December 2022

Walking. Germantown.
I Pray on Christmas – Blind Boys of Alabama
Coventry Carol – Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence – Little Windows
Lo How a Rose E’er Blooming – Sting
Doluce Nuit – Kali
Angels We Have Heard on High – Aretha Franklin
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing – Charles T. Cozens
A King Is Born – Jarrod Spector
The Holly and the Ivy – Cumberland Gap Reunion
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen – David Briggs, Organ/Stephen Cleobury/Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
Away in a Manger – The Rhos Orpheus Male Choir
Joy to the World – Dolly Parton
A Christmas Tree – Joanne Shenandoah
Peace Child – Indigo GIrls
Mary’s Boy Child – Tom Jackson
Sacred Gift – Bill Miller

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