Author name: John Fischer

THE WORDS “JOY TO THE WORLD” WERE FIRST SUNG to a significantly joyless world. The faithful who witnessed the crowning […]

WE ALL GO THROUGH THE SAME ASTRONOMICAL YEAR, and here in the northern hemisphere the warmth and light of the

IT MAY NOT SEEM LIKE IT NOW, BUT THEN, IT NEVER DOES. Advent begins with a tired incredulous laugh, like

Most of this letter was written prior to the horrific events of this last weekend. We felt it was a

“GHOST of the Future!” [Scrooge] exclaimed, “I fear you more than any specter I have seen. But as I know

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Scrooge awoke in his bedchamber in the middle of a snore to find the clock once again at the stroke

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“Marley was dead: to begin with… dead as a door-nail.” So begins the Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The success