2011 Christmas talk and toast by Don Raiche, Apple Farm Vice-President

Shepherds, why this jubilee? Why these songs of happy cheer? What great brightness did you see? What glad tidings did you hear? The Christmas carol we cite comes out of our principle religious tradition, out of the archetypal matrix that Jung felt constituted the best spiritual tradition with historical roots in the Western world. Whatever may have become one-sided and narrow in that tradition (and wounding many a contemporary person), there are still values and great images that speak to our present situation. > Read More... 

LOOK UP! - Christmas Talk by Joan Miller

The Christmas story has two sets of characters that we might call star watchers. The shepherds are professional sheep tenders who happen to sit nightly under the stars. The magi are professional astrologers/astronomers who happen to follow the stars. Each is in a position to notice when something unusual happens in the sky.

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