On Sunday I attended a worship service at which the air was heavy with a sense of loss. But I saw the church being the church at its best.
Christmas in the United States is such a mammoth economic phenomenon that when it comes to a crashing end on December 25 it feels like a total cultural collapse.
Christians have always been uncomfortable with the Magnificat. Advent takes us places we would rather not go.
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