Tag: music
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Christmas, 2025
Read More: Christmas, 2025Welcome to this small patch in the middle of Christendom, where we are celebrating Christmas with stories and music, just as it’s been done for a long time. For music, we are offering Herman de Jong’s recording of Christmas songs that he played on the St. Catharines, Covenant CRC organ. Christmas Songs The first story…
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November
Read More: NovemberThe road between Orangeville and Listowel stretched ahead of me, endlessly. A fine drizzle obscured
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Have Mercy on Us
Read More: Have Mercy on UsHave mercy on us, O Lord, when, with a great artillery of suspicious, black-and-white, theological wordplay, we gloss over the precious precedent of your long suffering and mankind’s.
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Nikolaikirche
Read More: NikolaikircheNicholai Church in Leipzig was the beating heart of East Germany’s Monday demonstrations that led to the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 some 36 years ago
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Book Views
Read More: Book ViewsThe road to fulfillment is paved with grand intentions. The Silk Roads A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan The Bright Ages A New History of Medieval Europe by Matthew Gabriele &David M. Perry Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire French-Indigenous Relationsand the Rise of the Metisin the Hudson Bay Watershed by Scott Berthelette…
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On Cats and Dogs
Read More: On Cats and DogsAlmost every Canadian family has a dog or a cat. A quarter of supermarkets is used to display food for those pets. There is a very wide choice of all kinds of brands, because like humans, pets are very picky.
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Religion and Faith
Read More: Religion and FaithOne can talk about religion in generalities and about churches being staunchly Reformed and very orthodox, but what was my personal experience as a child? I can’t remember that my mother often told Bible stories, but she must have done so. At table Dad read from Anne De Vries’ Bible Story Book and when I…
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Organ Playing
Read More: Organ PlayingI have no recollection that I played much with my siblings, Kees, Truus and Sense. I imagine they had their own friends as I had mine. Of course, they were 5 and 4 years older. All of us had organ lessons, but I was the only one who took lessons for over one year. My…
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The War Years
Read More: The War YearsChildren usually are not interested in world politics. When I was 8 years old I didn’t know Hitler was planning to conquer all of Europe. Of course, I had seen pictures of this beastly man, but only thought he was funny with his mustache and straight hair. On May 5, early in the morning our…