The holiday season is fast approaching, although it might be more fitting for many this year to say it’s encroaching—impinging, intruding, barging in, imposing itself. After a year overrun with expansive sorrow, the thought of “Christmas cheer” rings hollow. Even the message of the angel to a group of bewildered shepherds on a hill outside Bethlehem, “I bring you good news of great joy” (Luke…

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