David Yearsley

David Yearsley Shaboozey puts the pedal to the metal on his way past the big Billboard of fame and fortune. (YouTube screenshot)

David Yearsley Organist and other musicians accompany gladiatorial combat. Roman mosaics, 2dn Century C. E., Zliten, Libya.

The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols fills King’s College Chapel at Cambridge University every year on the afternoon of Christmas Eve. The service is

Albrecht Dürer, Adoration of the Magi, 1504.Uffizi, Florence. (public domain) Christmas is a dangerous time, for it threatens social instability, political disorder, even revolution.

Christmas is a dangerous time, for it threatens social instability, political disorder, even revolution. At the culmination of the story, kings kneel before a helpless baby; the powerful pay tribute to the seemingly powerless. To understand the destabilizing potency of Christmas, one has only to recall Andreas Karlstadt, an iconoclast in the literal sense, shouting the words of institution in German—not Latin— and offering both the communion cup and the wafer to the trembling hands and lips of the unconfessed laity in Wittenberg on December 25, 1521, in the first years of the Lutheran Reformation.

David Yearsley Returning the Gold Plates to Moroni (1829), Linda Curley Christensen and Michael Malm, 2020. Sacred Grove Welcome Center, Palmyra, New York,

Morris Mitchell as Timothée Chalamet as Willy Wonka. New York City, October, 2024. (YouTube screenshot)

Movie stars are singing again. From across a century of sound cinema there have been many leading women and men who have been winning vocalists, from the

Donnybrook Don versus the Joltin' Joes: Flex-off Before the Inaugural Bout (AI Art Generator). It was the perfect setting for a cage fight.

After weeks of bitter subzero temperatures, the Polar Vortex loosens its grip on Upstate New York. Far more tenacious and deadly was the Little Ice Age