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Church choir reunites to record Silent Night and bring its faithful a light in the dark
They hadn t been together for nine months. But the choir at Binghamton s Tabernacle United Methodist Church knew Christmas Eve called for something special.
Katie Sullivan Borrelli, Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin
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3:19 pm UTC Dec. 21, 2020
They hadn t been together for nine months. But the choir at Binghamton s Tabernacle United Methodist Church knew Christmas Eve called for something special.
Katie Sullivan Borrelli, Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin
Published
3:19 pm UTC Dec. 21, 2020
VIDEO: How a Binghamton church choir is keeping the Christmas spirit alive
The Tabernacle United Methodist Church in Binghamton got its choir together to safely record a special piece for Christmas.
Church choir reunites to record Silent Night and bring its faithful a light in the dark Katie Sullivan Borrelli, Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin
VIDEO: How a Binghamton church choir is keeping the Christmas spirit alive
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On Christmas Eve, as it always had before the year that changed everything, the hymn began with a flicker in the dark.
The faithful breathed together, one body in the darkened center of the church, as they transferred a single flame from the tip of one white taper candle to the next. They passed it from choir members to grandparents, to parents, to children, to friends, to neighbors, to anyone who had made their way to this place, on this night, to celebrate the long-ago birth of a baby in a manger.
75 COVID-19 Cases Linked to N.C. Church Event
December 21, 2020
A holiday musical event at a North Carolina church has resulted in 75 people testing positive for the coronavirus.
The Dec. 5 event the First Baptist Church in Hendersonville was crowded, and many people didn’t wear facial coverings, including choir members who sang shoulder to shoulder, people who attended told the
Asheville Citizen-Times.
“To date, the Health Department has identified 75 individuals who have tested positive as a result of the event. The Health Department is working to identify any additional close contacts of these individuals,” the Henderson County Health Department said in a news release.
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Derrick Z. Jackson, fellow | December 18, 2020, 2:14 pm EDT This post is a part of a series on
As much as the Constitution guarantees religious freedom in the United States, it is hard to imagine a compassionate god approving of freedom that comes with the sacrifice of souls at the altar. And yet, that is what the Supreme Court in essence sanctioned in its recent 5-4 verdict invalidating New York State’s pandemic rules on in-person religious worship.
The conservative majority of justices sided with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and two Brooklyn Orthodox Jewish synagogues that the rules were discriminatory compared to those for secular businesses. The court has since also backed churches against COVID-19 restrictions in California, New Jersey, and Colorado, instructing lower courts to reconsider the cases on the basis of the New Yo