Brigham Young University Choir & Orchestra – Oh Come All Ye Faithful
An evening pause: I hope all my Christian readers had a wonderful and joyous Christmas, from your Jewish but very secular host. With good will to all!
Hat tip Judd Clark.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
An evening pause: I hope all my Christian readers had a wonderful and joyous Christmas, from your Jewish but very secular host. With good will to all!
Hat tip Judd Clark.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News


”I hope all my Christian readers had a wonderful and joyous Christmas, from your Jewish but very secular host. With good will to all!”
Thank you, Bob. During a time in which both Judaism and Christianity are under attack from seemingly all sides, it is much appreciated.
Thank you!
Michelle Moyer
“Silent Night” (December 23, 2012)
Composed by Clyde Bawden
https://youtu.be/dx6YKnwmQio
6:44
“5 Ways the Amish Celebrate Christmas”
Amish America (2021)
Rebecca Miller of the Holmes County, Ohio Amish Community
https://youtu.be/zF7m8Ka2-TI
10:42
Spoiler Alert: “Very traditionally!”
“In addition to December 25th, they also acknowledge January 6th as the Epiphany, and which they call “Old Christmas,” to account for days removed from the Gregorian Calendar in 1582 when it was updated to keep Easter on track.
Some thoughts
https://media.christendom.edu/1987/08/the-moral-dimensions-of-publius-statecraft/
Wayne:
I appreciate the Twelve Days of Christmas. The last week of the year is the annual ‘Dead Week’, anyway. I have taken the last week off a couple of times, and have taken the last half of December off a couple of times because if I made any more money, I’d go to a higher tax bracket. It was cheaper not to work.
The Epiphany as the end of the Christmas season makes sense from a temporal view: the Magi didn’t see the star (December 25), and teleport to Bethlehem. What with the Holiday travel season, added to the business travel for tax purposes, transit would be delayed, and they probably had to change planes in Tel Aviv.
Celebrating the Holiday over two weeks seems a better use of the holiday investment. Now, lots of run-up for One Day. Maybe take a lesson from others, and spend some time to enjoy and reflect.
Blair–
Mrs. Rodriguez’s Class
American Sign Language interpretation of:
Perry Como “Twelve Days of Christmas”
https://youtu.be/HpuT9lIrc2w
(4:06)