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Advent
Christmas survival
Culture
Poetry
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Christmas countdown day 23: the poets

Tennyson, Eliot, Rossetti and L’Engle: at Christmas, sorrow doesn’t preclude joy.

Beatrice writes on literature, religion, the arts, and the family. Her published work can be found here

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The Christmas Countdown

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America
Attention
Culture
Seen & Unseen Aloud
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New episode: Seen & Unseen Aloud

Listen to a curated selection of recent Seen & Unseen articles. This episode: the preciousness of an ordinary day, visiting the memorials of American history and human dignity and worth.

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

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This week we hear Julie Canlis explaining the church's season of Ordinary Time and why it's so special; we continue to follow Ian Hamlin on his adventures as he takes us to some significant memorials of American and human history; Ryan Gilfeather asks questions about human dignity and worth in the context of the Israel/Hamas war.