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Hark! No herald angels sang

The suburban church is passing from the scene

11 January 2025

9:00 AM

11 January 2025

9:00 AM

Not everyone will have noticed, but the strains of carol singing were heard less this past Christmas than in previous years. Not because of secularising councils’ anti-Christian campaigns or disingenuous protestations that public celebrations of Christmas ‘offend’ certain minorities, though all that plays its part, but because there are fewer churches to sing them in.

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