Paul Gerhardt News Today

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As we enter 2024, it would seem that many of us are certain we need worldly power to make right what is going awry. In the next months hundreds of

PENN YAN — The Penn Yan Community Chorus, accompanied by Lucinda Loomis, presents its annual holiday concert, “My Heart Rejoices,” at 2 p.m. Dec. 3 inside First Baptist Church, 224

Many hymns about the love for Christ and him crucified have been attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux, inclduing “O Sacred Head, Now Wounded."

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FOREST — The name of the farm winery off Cottontown Road — Burnbrae Vineyards — is Scottish and means “little rolling hill to a creek.”

A Cistercian monk during the Middle Ages wrote a poem about Jesus’ death that was discovered by a Lutheran pastor in the 17th century.

The word sounds disrespectful, like appropriation, but it's a serious term — the Art Institute of Chicago has an Egyptomania collection. It also just opened a new permanent gallery of Egyptian art.

The Christian story is the true myth, making concrete, clear, and present what the pagans had perceived only dimly and distantly.

SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICE Sunday, 11am, Princeton University Chapel Join us for worship in the University Chapel with preacher Rev. Alison L. Boden, Ph.D., Dean of Religious Life and of the Chapel at Princeton University. Music by the Princeton University Chapel Choir with Nicole Aldrich, Director of Chapel Music and of the University Chapel Choir and Eric Plutz, University Organist. The Worship Service is live streamed on the ORL YouTube page each week. *All persons, including members of the broad...