Comments on: “The Nativity”: A Christmas Carol Pageant for Sunday Schools, 1939 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/12/23/%e2%80%9cthe-nativity%e2%80%9d-a-christmas-carol-pageant-for-sunday-schools-1939/ Where our past is never very long ago Sat, 18 May 2013 04:38:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Clark http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/12/23/%e2%80%9cthe-nativity%e2%80%9d-a-christmas-carol-pageant-for-sunday-schools-1939/comment-page-1/#comment-38525 Clark Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:42:25 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=10239#comment-38525 Late to the party, but…

“ordinary, typical routines” like assuming every meetinghouse has a stage? Or that the audience would recognize the melody of Hadyn’s “Oh worship the King?”

And how many bishops, then or now, would be okay with burning incense in the church?

I enjoyed this post, despite the pessemistic lead-in.

]]> By: Mina http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/12/23/%e2%80%9cthe-nativity%e2%80%9d-a-christmas-carol-pageant-for-sunday-schools-1939/comment-page-1/#comment-37864 Mina Fri, 24 Dec 2010 16:39:24 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=10239#comment-37864 This post provided me with the excuse to do some pleasant morning reading about the Magi. They always fascinated me, I guess because they seemed so exotic (and one was named “Casper!”). I’ve always wondered why the myrrh was so consistently portrayed in some kind of round container. I don’t really have an answer for that, but I did find this representation where Casper appears to be bringing funeral potatoes:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Magi_%281%29.jpg

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