Advent: A Time to Listen to Our Longing for a Better World ; the Purpose of the Season Before Christmas Is to Let Us Slow Down Enough to Hear Other Voices.

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It's been my conviction since the earliest days of my ministry that we live in Advent times. My own call to follow Jesus was born out of a longing for peace, out of the fearful days of the nuclear arms race and the chaos of the Vietnam War.

My nation at war has been the reality for easily half my 61 years. Our engagement in Afghanistan now constitutes the longest period of continuous combat operations in American history.

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Advent: A Time to Listen to Our Longing for a Better World ; the Purpose of the Season Before Christmas Is to Let Us Slow Down Enough to Hear Other Voices.

And that's not all. So much of the promise of the modern era seems to lie in ruins. Whether it's health care or education or home ownership or environmental conservatio...

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