Christmas Letters 2023; The Slumbering Shepherd

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** Fiducia Supplicans: Into a Sea of Change
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By Matthew S.C. Olver

TLC’s publisher analyzes the Roman Catholic Church’s potentially confusing declaration allowing the blessing of people in same sex unions, stressing implications for doctrinal development and ecumenism. Read on ([link removed]) .


** Bishops’ Christmas Letters 2023
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Leaders from around the Anglican Communion call for justice and peace in the Holy Land, search for signs of God’s goodness, and celebrate his coming among us in love. Read on ([link removed]) .


** From the Archives: Christmas 1923
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Christmas 100 years ago: novel Nativity plays, tobacco for the indigent, war over the virgin birth, and a children’s pilgrimage to the grave of the author of “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”. Read on ([link removed]) .


** Slumbering Shepherd: A Case of Mistaken Identity
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By Dennis Raverty

John La Farge’s Good Shepherd window at Manhattan’s Church of the Ascension actually alludes to medieval imagery associated with St. Joseph, Jesus’ foster-father. Read on ([link removed]) .
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** Our Birth at Bethlehem
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By Chip Prehn

“Something in each of us was born at Bethlehem. You and I were made to participate in God’s glory." Read on ([link removed]) .


** Remembering Stephen
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By Terry Wong

Stephen imitates Christ by dying like him, and Christ stands to welcome him into the Father’s presence. While incongruous to some, Stephen’s martyrdom can console those who weep at this season. Read on ([link removed]) .


** Love Amid War: St. John's Day
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By Neil Dhingra

In his Christmas 1942 addresses, William Temple claims that only an experience of the love of God disclosed in the Incarnation can free us from self-centeredness and open us to true fellowship with others. Read on ([link removed]) .

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