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St. Lawrence Schola had been scheduled to perform Gregorian Chants for the season at 7:30 in the gallery as part of Christmas Festival 2006 - 12 events for 12 days before Christmas.  However, they have just informed us that they will be unable to perform.  Signs of Life regrets any inconvenience.

Christmas Festival 2006 - 12 events for 12 days before Christmas presents Amy Tharp, pianist. Amy will be serving up a fun and entertaining blend of classical music and Christmas carols on our antique Steinway grand piano.

Tuesday Folk’s Christmas Special is tonight’s event for Christmas Festival 2006 - 12 events for 12 days before Christmas.

Pianist Larry Carter, singer/guitarist Maria Anthony, and violinist Meghan Hurt will explore the folk side of Christmas Music.

Looking for something yummy to serve this holiday season? Signs of Life welcomes Alison Olewnik, pastry chef at the Merc, to tonight’s installment of Christmas Festival 2006 - 12 events for 12 days before Christmas.

Signs of Life’s Christmas Festival 2006 - 12 events for 12 days before Christmas - features kids’ story time. Our talented readers will bring to life Christmas stories from the pages of classics and new tales to delight the younger set. Mom and Dad can shop the bookstore or art gallery, knowing that the kids are well occupied. From 1-4 pm.

What could be better than the sound of a french horn playing Christmas music?  How about four french horns, or maybe more?  Tonight, the Signs of Life’s Christmas Festival 2006 - 12 events for 12 days before Christmas brings you Carol Ney and friends all tooting their horns for a delightful evening of music.

Signs of Life’s Christmas Festival 2006 - 12 events for 12 days before Christmas - features a reader’s theater version of A Christmas Carol, described by Charles Dickens as his favorite work. If you’ve never participated in reader’s theater, you are in for a treat. OK, you’re in for a treat even if you have done reader’s theater before. We’ll ask for volunteers from the audience to read each part. No rehearsal, no props, whatever happens, happens - God bless us every one!

Signs of Life’s Christmas Festival 2006 - 12 events for 12 days before Christmas - features a time for making your own Christmas cards tonight at 7:30. Kids and adults can join gallery director James Schaefer in making beautiful creations to send Christmas wishes to friends and family. Bring something to cut with and something to color with.

To get a preview of what will happen tonight, you can watch interviews channel 49 in Topeka did with our gallery director James Schaefer and book manager Seth Toebben.

Signs of Life’s Christmas Festival 2006 - 12 events for 12 days before Christmas - features members of the KU Women’s Glee Club tonight at 7:30, presenting songs of the season.

And you can continue to bring in your non-perishable food items for the Christmas Community Can Collection to benefit the Leo Center.

Have you ever heard the claim that Christians are about as likely to divorce as the U.S. population at large? I think we church-goers tend to quote this statistic to shame ourselves into taking our marriage vows, and our faith, more seriously.

However, a new study indicates this common wisdom is not true, once you factor in church attendance that is.  In “What’s Love Got to Do with It? Equality, Equity, Commitment, and Women’s Marital Quality,” University of Virginia sociologists Steven L. Nock and W. Bradford Wilcox examine what makes women content in marriage.  In a recent article about this study in Christianity Today, the authors note “churchgoing evangelical Protestants, churchgoing Catholics, and churchgoing mainline Protestants are all significantly less likely to divorce . . . (than the general population) . . . between 35 and 50 percent less likely than Americans who attend church just nominally, just once or twice a year, or who don’t attend church at all. It is true that people who say they’ve had a born-again experience are about as likely to divorce as people who are completely secular.  But if you look at this through the lens of church attendance, you see a very different story.”

So, if you want to boost your chances for marital bliss, go to church. Often.