Two and a half billion Christians around the world will soon celebrate the birth of the man they call their Savior, and many of them will do so this Friday, Christmas Eve. New Haven’s churches are a microcosm of that Christian population, with services embracing many different traditions, all of them welcoming guests to celebrate […]
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Symbolic Logic
In the middle of residential Westville, the Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Church stands out for its contrasting ornamentation and stark simplicity. (more…)
Mass Appeal
Father William Holt and Father Elias Henritzy are sitting in the front room of the priory, spooling out the history of St. Mary’s Church. (more…)
This World, and the Next
It looks like a spaceship that touched down on Dixwell Avenue in the ’60s and never left. As you walk around it, the structure seems to change shape. Its cut-stone walls (more…)
Boys to Men
His fingers and feet chasing a maelstrom of keys, levers, switches and pedals, organist Andy Kotylo’s face is a maelstrom itself—tightening up, then releasing, then tightening, his lungs seemingly forgetting to breathe, then expelling and (more…)
Swinging Praises
On a recent blustery Sunday, lively jazz music fills the high-ceilinged sanctuary of the Episcopal Church of St. Paul and St. James in Wooster Square. The congregation trickles in, exchanging hellos and hugs. A five-piece band (more…)
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