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Ubiquitous holiday TV ads to the contrary, American caroling is far less common than it used to be, says Bob Thompson, professor of popular culture at Syracuse University. It's not unusual to see carolers standing still in a shopping mall or churchyard, but as for the random groups of friends traipsing to your doorstep for singing, don't count on it. "You talk to most baby boomers they might have a caroling story or two," says Thompson. "Talk to anybody born after 1960 or so and it's become much less common." Simply put, times and culture have changed...
...other more liberal members of the 11 congregations who have decided not to depart Episcopalianism. He adds, "They have friends and children and husbands and mothers and grandparents baptized and buried in these churches." What would it mean if those dead were suddenly buried in a hostile churchyard...
...wearing costumes without actually living in them, of them walking about in settings they don't seem to fully inhabit. They feel plunked down in alien surroundings, and a lot of the time I felt the unseen spirit of the art director, proud of having found the perfect old churchyard or country house. Put it simply: The movie approximates antique reality, but it never sweeps us heedlessly into that reality...
...from the country's poorest reaches. Many of them have become curious about Christmas, says an elder at Yiwu's main Protestant church. Last year, 30,000 people attended Christmas Eve services in a church with pews seating only 7,000, so the minister set up loudspeakers in the churchyard. At the end, he asked how many first-timers would consider joining the church. "Hands went up everywhere," the elder says...
...organ with Jed as he demonstrates how, with a simple change of key, he "can make anyone cry." It's Doughty's soliloquy, but as he plays, MacDowell simultaneously shrivels and blooms: Kate realizes that this kid means more to her than a quick roll in the churchyard--he is the ardent love she had not known she was missing. The happiness and pain send a tear down her cheek...