BBC Gaelic Christmas Service
BBC TV Alba’s Gaelic Carol
service with a difference: American Gospel and traditional carols with Gaelic
voices and a little documentary thrown in about the Gaelic Gospel Choir. (Who would have thought salsa, the dance not
the condiment, would be a useful training tool for choirs – watch the programme
and you will understand.)
For those like myself not blessed
with Gaelic there are on-screen English subtitles for the dialogue and
preaching. The preacher is Rev Chris
MacRae of Kilmallie Free Church of Scotland, the evangelical and orthodox Presbyterian
denomination to which I also belong. He preached a short, simple cross centred
gospel message on how God brings peace through Christ crucified. (The BBC producer would have set the time
limit.)
The program airs twice: Christmas
Eve at 11:00 p.m. and Christmas Day at 4:55 p.m. and is available to play on
demand on the BBC Alba website:
It is encouraging and deeply
appreciated that at least one section of the BBC still gives authentic evangelical
Christianity a voice – even if it is a Gaelic only voice. Enjoyable and edifying
watching.
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