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The Last Straw
How one family prepared for Christmas. Copyright 1979 by Paula McDonald. Interested parties can contact the author via e-mail at 102526.356@compuserve.com or at 416 W. San Ysidro Blvd., Suite L724, San Ysidro, CA 92173. From Chicken Soup for the Christian Soul, pp. 68-77, copyright 1997 by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Aubery and Nancy Mitchell. Health Communications, Inc., Deerfield Beach, FL. (This resource, along with a specially-priced package of the Chicken Soup books, is available at a discount through the Homiletic Resource Center.) Used with permission of the author.Jon Stewart, The End Times and the Season of Advent
("At last month's Rally to Restore Sanity, Jon Stewart's moving summation included this line: 'We live in hard times, not end times'. He didn't elaborate but his audience knew what he meant: Shame on the doom-and-gloom politicians and pundits who frame every issue in apocalyptic terms, exploiting the fear and ignorance of those who are sure that President Obama is the anti-Christ or that Sarah Palin is the devil in lipstick and high heels...")Advent as a Mirror of Possibility and Expectation
("Anish Kapoor's Sky Mirror outside the Nottingham Playhouse Theatre offers a strikingly attention-grabbing perspective on what is an otherwise unremarkable and fairly mundane space. It is as though the artist has designed the mirror to take this straightforward reality and imaginatively pour out its essence across the polished surface...")