Tuesday digest

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New today from the Century:

• Why Suzanne Guthrie needs Advent: "My family went over the top with Christmas gifts when I was young. But because of Advent, I knew this wasn't what I was waiting for."

• Carol Howard Merritt talks taboo with Erin Lane and Enuma Okoro

• Jonathan Grieser on the clergy housing allowance

• Janet Potter's year-end picks in young adult fiction

• Richard Kauffman's year-end picks in history

• Hardy Kim's lectionary column for Sunday, December 8 (subscription required)

In the news:

• Pope Francis lays out a blueprint for his papacy in ‘Evangelii Gaudium’
• Supreme Court takes up contraceptive mandate, will rule on religious rights of corporations
• Washington National Cathedral to charge visitors