Faith • Liturgical Reflections
Windows into Waiting
Contributors from all over America reflect on the theme of longing and silence in their experiences of the Advent season.
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Culture • Popular Culture
On “Silence” and More
“But did he hear their screams?” My wife Meg is named after two martyrs who lost their lives during the horrible “killing times” of Scotland in the 17th-century. Two Margarets, one an older woman and the other a girl, were staked in the bay as the tide came in, condemned to death for their refusal...
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Liturgical Reflections
Gary Black on Why “Silence” Matters at Christmas
Now, but not yet. Everyone everywhere, sons of Adam and daughters of Eve that we are, sees the same world, and tries to make sense. We don’t have to be philosophers to do that; in fact sometimes philosophers miss it badly. What is required is that we be human beings— ordinary men and women who...
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