There are amateur singing opportunities like karaoke, but then there’s a community “Messiah” singalong.

Messiah’s Mansion, a fullscale model of what may have been Moses’ sanctuary, has been set up at the southeast corner of Power and Elliot roads in Gilbert.

“During the debate Mitt Romney stole Obama’s platform. Now Romney’s heart bleeds for the middle class and calls for shared sacrifice and he’s treated like the Messiah. For years now Pres. Obama has called for shared sacrifice, and he’s accused of class- warfare.”

The job creator has become the messiah in our economic doldrums. Some say we need to provide these messiahs with all sorts of economic advantages so the rest of us may have the privilege of working.

Individual tickets for the Phoenix Symphony's 2010/11 season are now available by calling the box office at (602) 495-1999 or visiting www.phoenixsymphony.org.

Jews for Jesus will begin a 2 1/2-week project in the Valley next weekend to reach out with their message that “you can be Jewish and believe in Jesus.”

Here: Join the 23rd annual Messiah Choir at SMCC

Here: Join the 23rd annual Messiah Choir at SMCC

A sad spectre haunts Desert Rose Theatre’s winter play, “Joyful Noise,” though it’s probably not apparent to anyone making a first foray to the 55-seat strip mall playhouse in west Mesa.

Selling out a performance at the world-famous Tabernacle at Temple Square in Salt Lake City is an accommplishment in itself, but doing it in 20 minutes is extraordinary. Yet that’s what the East Valley Mormon Choral Organization has done, in just its second year of operation.

Handel's 'Messiah'

The Gilbert Stapley Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is holding solo auditions and asking for instrumentalists for the upcoming Handel's Messiah community singalong with an orchestra.

Fans of Katherine Stewart’s modest little theater company in Mesa, Desert Rose Theatre, know never to expect something light, fluffy and vapid.

Moments after nearly 425 Valley clergy and religious leaders watched Jesus Christ incessantly beaten to a bloody pulp in the debut of “The Passion of the Christ,” a faith panel passionately endorsed the controversial film Wednesday as God-inspired cinematography.

It gets pushed to the side as most of us start putting the Christmas trimmings away and settle in for just a few more college football games, but Thursday is the Feast of the Epiphany for Western Christians. Historically, Epiphany has been a major feast of the Christian church, but in modernity the 12 days of Christmas have become little more than a traditional song, and Epiphany has become more obscure.

It gets pushed to the side as most of us start putting the Christmas trimmings away and settle in for just a few more college football games, but Thursday is the Feast of the Epiphany for Western Christians. Historically, Epiphany has been a major feast of the Christian church, but in modernity the 12 days of Christmas have become little more than a traditional song, and Epiphany has become more obscure.

In its biggest event of the year, Desert Vista High School’s orchestra will be accompanied by the symphonic band, guitar classes, and the Pointe Club for the annual holiday concert next week.

"It amazes me that the same people who put down the Mormon faith are the same people who repeat Glenn Beck's rantings as if he were the Messiah himself."

Individual tickets for the Phoenix Symphony's 2010/11 season are now available by calling the box office at (602) 495-1999 or visiting www.phoenixsymphony.org.

Individual tickets for the Phoenix Symphony's 2010/11 season are now available by calling the box office at (602) 495-1999 or visiting www.phoenixsymphony.org.

Individual tickets for the Phoenix Symphony's 2010/11 season are now available by calling the box office at (602) 495-1999 or visiting www.phoenixsymphony.org.