"Freedom Seder With the Shul of New York," with a meal and a service featuring gospel music; Middle Church Jerriese Johnson Gospel Choir.
7 p.m. Christmas Eve service with traditional songs, gospel and blues music, and original works; Middle Church Jerriese Johnson Gospel Choir. 10 p.m. (212) 477-0666; middlechurch.org.org
Hence Carpenter's attachment to the new organ at Middle Church, which is not only rodent-free but has been endowed with a range exceeding that of any traditional pipe organ.
'Changed My Name': A Gospel Cantata (Sunday) In celebration of Black History Month, the Middle Church Choir, directed by Jonathan Dudley, will perform this cantata by Linda Twine, who was inspired by spirituals and the lives of the abolitionists Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth.
WALKING TOURS "R.I.P.: THE WALKING TOUR" visits sites relevant to the Day of the Dead, including the New York City Marble Cemetery, final home of John Lloyd Stephens, the 19th-century Maya archaeologist, and the Middle Church Slocum Memorial Mosaics, which commemorate the deaths in 1904 of 1,100 people who were aboard in the S.S.
Not so at Middle Collegiate Church, in the East Village, which has invested five hundred thousand dollars in a new digital organ, designed by Cameron Carpenter, who since spring has been Middle Church's artist in residence.
Middle Church stands for the freedom of all couples to legally marry.
Their union had been blessed in the 1980s at Middle Church as sacred.
Middle Church will mourn with them today as we did when they lost their child to gun violence.
If you are in New York on Sunday, come to Middle Church at Second Avenue and 7th Street at 9 30a or 11 45a.
Jacqui Lewis is Senior Minister of Middle Church and Executive Director of The Middle Project, a not for profit institute that trains progressive ethical leaders for a just society.
