Christmas Carols: Custom, Controversy and Celebration
Posted on 16th November 2016 at 14:00
Christmas Carols are totally evocative of an old-fashioned holiday season.
Today, they are celebrated in carol services like the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King’s College Cambridge, where the story of the Nativity is told with singing and Bible readings. We are familiar with many of the tunes from childhood. But the Christmas carol was not always so acceptable, or even religious.