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When the World Was Not Watching

Texts and Music from Advent to Epiphany

John L. Bell

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Item #: G-11523    

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Description:

For over thirty years, John Bell and Graham Maule sent Christmas cards that featured original texts and designs. Among the texts were prayers, reflections and many carols, but not of the conventional sort. Rather, they took on themes usually avoided: the anonymity of the birth of Jesus, the awkwardness for Joseph of being a surrogate father, the savagery of the slaughter of the innocents.

With this collection, John Bell assembles these works in one volume, guiding us through the full length of the season from the first Sunday in Advent through Epiphany with a truly unique and inspired point of view. 

Categories: Choral/Vocal, Collection, Hymnody, Iona

Seasonal: Advent, Christmastide

Liturgical: Christmas Dawn, Christmas Day, Christmas Night, Christmas Vigil, Epiphany

Number of Pages: 118

Format: Spiral

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