{The Lutheran Ladies’ Lounge} Write This: Christmas Carols

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In honor of the Christmas season, the Ladies are welcoming listener contributions to a new “Write This:” creative challenge, this time featuring original Christmas carol lyrics to familiar tunes.

What makes a Christmas carol different from a Christmas hymn? Can you set a Christmas hymn to the tune of “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer”? Why are timeless and original Christmas carol lyrics SO HARD to write? And which intrepid Lutheran lady listeners rose to the challenge?

Referenced in this episode:

Martin Luther Yells About Inferior Anglican Christmas Hymns (youtube.com)

Horus Ruins Christmas (youtube.com)

Auguries of Innocence by William Blake | Poetry Foundation

Carols for Choirs – Wikipedia