Another Weird Christmas

But that’s the way I like it

The Grace Church combined choirs (Youth and Adult), Members of Collegium Ancora, a few guest singers, and local orchestral musicians performing portions of G.F. Handel’s Messiah oratorio at Grace Church in Providence, December 22, 2019. I’m there somewhere. Photo by Serina O’Connell

Ever since I returned to Christ and started attending church regularly Christmas has been a little weird. Nobody in my immediate family celebrates it except people who live rather far away. My wife is Jewish and quite observant (except in that she married me, I often joke) and we brought our daughter up Jewish. When she was a child I was mostly an atheist although still…