Unitarian Christmas Carols

I have always thought of christmas time when it has come round as a good time.

Unitarian christmas carols. The only time i know of in the long calendar. Universal values it was a unitarian christmas ben realized out loud. Suddenly christmas songs were all about silent nights and angels sleeping. Some unitarian universalist congregations include a candle lighting ritual in the service in which the church lights are dimmed and people pass a flame from candle to candle until everyone is holding a lit candle.

Peace on the earth and good will toward men the world in solemn stillness lay to hear the angels sing wrote edmund sears massachusetts unitarian turned carol writer. Edmund hamilton sears wrote it came upon the midnight clear in 1849. A christmas carol is steeped in the unitarian theology of the spirit of jesus and that how we treat each other matters deeply. Christmas means the message of peace on earth to all goodwill.

Their popularity in america began about the time a unitarian minister the rev. My favorite character in this is marley a humanist who is clearly embarrassed to be a ghost. It often includes lessons and carols and sometimes a story that conveys the spirit of christmas. In that story the nephew of scrooge says.

In 1849 just a few years after dickens wrote a christmas carol a unitarian minister edmund hamilton sears wrote the words to it came upon the midnight clear with the war in europe and the us war with mexico weighing on his mind rev. E ven in unitarian universalist churches that rarely talk about jesus we sing christmas carols. Best loved christmas carols brook farm cantique de noel carols christmas christmas carols christmas music harvard john sullivan dwight o holy night transcendental unitarian minister posted in best loved christmas carols carol translator no comments. A kind forgiving charitable pleasant time.

Charles dickens you see was a unitarian christian. And a christmas carol preaches a decidedly 19th century unitarian message on christmas. To unitarians christianity was all about good works and good will not god s grace through christ s atonement. My christmas wasn t about the birth of one sect s savior it was about the brotherhood and sisterhood of all people.

Unitarian lydia marie child wrote over the river and through the woods too. Dickens snapped his fingers and ben was once again alone in his darkened bedroom. It was about compassion and friendship and family. And of course charles dickens who wrote a christmas carol was a unitarian and with that publication deeply influenced and even changed christmas as we and keillor know it.