This article really makes you wonder what the Episcopalians will do next. Instead of singing Christmas carols in the Episcopal Cathedral about the birth of Jesus Christ, according to David Virtue's 12/25 Virtueonline Viewpoints at http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1847 "the Episcopal flagship cathedral St. John the Divine in New York City held a series of "Winter Solstice" concerts this past week, fulfilling the fears of many that the Episcopal Church in its mad gadarene desire for cultural acceptance or disappearance may have finally won the title of Episcopaganism."

"On these never to be remembered occasions, the audience is taken on a symbolic journey through the longest night of the year. The return of the sun is represented by the world's largest tam-tam gong, seven feet in diameter, which ascends, played by a musician in a bosun's chair, up toward the Cathedral Nave's 100-foot-high ceiling. New this year, a "Moon Gong"--a giant Chinese wind gong with shimmering sound--moved with its player horizontally across the Narthex of the Cathedral."

"Another effect took advantage of the Cathedral's 604-foot interior length: a giant "Earth Ball," moving along the aisle as if through space, and then rising, spinning, up into the vault of the Nave. Set "in the round," musicians play from various points and heights including a stage, surrounded by the audience, near the middle of the Cathedral. The stage's centerpiece was a giant, rotating "Tree of Sounds," a 28-foot-tall spiral sculpture laden with bells, gongs and chimes."

"Paul Winter's Sun Gong celebrated the return of the sun after the longest night of the year. The musical, theatrical, dance and environmental spectacle, the multicultural, ecumenical event celebrated the triumph of light over darkness during the Holidays."