Don't Be Shy Just Sing Your Heart Out ; the Carols You'll Hear in Our Streets and Churches Are Not Just for Christians: They Should Be an Expression of Joy and Hope for Us All

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PUTa finger to your lips, an ear to the open window and, in these still moments over the dying traffic noise, you will hear the sound of singing. This is the day and night when Englishmen and women, unselfconsciously and by no means drunk, raise their voices in dodgy harmony to declare, in the deep midwinter, a bottomless faith in the possibility of renewal.

Carollers patrol our suburbs and shopping malls - ding-dong merrily on high street - and we, of all colours and ethnicities, will put down our bags and beam upon them kindly, savouring their contagious optimism. We may even - mumble-mumble, forgot the words - be tempted to chime in.

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Don't Be Shy Just Sing Your Heart Out ; the Carols You'll Hear in Our Streets and Churches Are Not Just for Christians: They Should Be an Expression of Joy and Hope for Us All

It's not a sectarian thing, not unique to Christian worship or, indeed, to having any faith apart from the English creed of kindness to strangers and confidence in the year to come. Some Jews, around their Sabbath tables tonight, will give thanks for 350 years of peacefu...

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