Deepening darkness.(Advent)(Editorial)
From: The Christian Century
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Date: 11/28/2006
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Author: Buchanan, John M.
IT'S MY FAVORITE time of year--though I never heard the word Advent until my mother brought home an Advent calendar one year. Presbyterians didn't observe Advent in western Pennsylvania in those days. I learned about it from the brightly decorated calendar with its tiny paper doors, one for each December day until Christmas. I recall that my little brother succumbed to curiosity and opened the final door soon after the nightly dinnertime ritual began, revealing a manger and the ...
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