This is the epilogue from Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Christmas cantata “Hodie,” which adapts the words from Milton’s “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity“: Ring out, ye crystal spheres, Once bless our human ears, If ye have power to touch our senses so; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time, And let the bass of heaven’s deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony. Such music (as ’tis said) Before was... Read more
This is a Romanian Christmas carol that I love, composed by Gheorghe Cucu. The sheet music is available online. There are a number of different recordings of it available online. One absolutely stellar rendition, by the Bucharest Madrigal Choir, is available on YouTube only in a version that has the very last note cut off, otherwise I would have shared that one, which has a lot of nostalgia value for me. Read more
Gary Larson has the ending to the fourth wise man’s tale. And Jeff Stahler has a different version of what the third wise man brought. Hope you get gifts you like this holiday! Read more
In the same 24 hour period, Roger Olson and Daniel McClellan posted on the subject of the divinity of Christ. Roger Olson tries to make the case that this doctrine should be regarded as a Christian essential, and I must say that I find his case not only weak but extremely problematic. The New Testament evidence, even when one includes the Gospel of John in the mix, is far from clear in asserting anything that resembles the later doctrines of... Read more
How could I not have seen this before? Hilarious! Read more
Jim West shared this “just for me,” and even though a year ago this I shared, presumably repeating things once a year bother anyone going to is not. Read more
I’m grateful to commenter Brian for pointing out that some folks have been seeing truncated posts in their subscriptions to the feed from this blog. If that is the case for you, you probably chose to “follow” this blog back when it was on Blogger, and the feed that you subscribed to that way has been customized to show truncated posts. If you would like to get complete posts in your feed reader, just add this feed to your reader:... Read more
Because the most regular readers are presumably those who subscribe to the RSS feed, and thus who may read the content at Exploring Our Matrix far more often than they visit the site, I have no way of knowing exactly how many people actually read this blog on a regular basis. And so I thought it would be fun and interesting if once, just this once, every single regular reader could come here and leave a comment, even if anonymously. It would be great... Read more
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