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** The Sons of Confederate Veterans want their due
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They’re wrong.

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** Lapse: Essays by readers
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We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “Lapse.”
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** In Advent and Christmas, desolation and consolation reside together
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This time of year, our inner landscapes can seem as bleak as the outer ones.

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** Living by the Word for December 24/25
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Preachers who value their pulpit would be wise to avoid Isaiah 9 this Christmas Eve.
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** Living by the Word for Sunday, December 29
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Matthew connects Jesus to the overarching narrative of the Jewish people—as well as to the smaller story of Matthew’s immediate community.
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** Queen and Slim challenges assumptions about race, justice, and what matters
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Melinda Matsoukas’s film rolls terror and hope into one story.

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** Sunday Morning Matinee Episode 71: It’s a Wonderful Life
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Matt Gaventa and Adam Hearlson talk sacrifice, small-town life, Christmas movies, and the Frank Capra classic It's a Wonderful Life.
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** If Trump is impeached, it will be hard for Senate Republicans to vote to convict him
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They need to do it anyway.
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** A look at faith in film over the last decade
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At a time of rapid secularization, filmmakers seem intrigued—if sometimes also repelled—by religion.

by Philip Jenkins

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