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This edition of Brass, Reeds, and Percussion, features Christmas wind band music, both secular and religious. One of the featured tunes is \“Greensleeves,\” probably the oldest song that musicologists have been able to identify. You will also hear a Christmas song that holds the record for taking the longest for a recording to make it to the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100. But since it is still Advent, Brass, Reeds, and Percussion opens with two Advent hymns. The words for the first hymn, \...

In this Advent season, it is crucial to reflect on the transformative witness of belief and devotion in the midst of difficult and painful waits.

(RNS) — ‘To say that the meaning of sacred Scriptures are over for Jews, because Jesus has come, fuels sense that there is no longer a reason for Jews to exist,’ said one scholar.