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“Advent,” says Fleming Rutledge, “is definitely not for sissies.” As the midnight of the Christian year, Advent is rife with dark, gritty realities. In this book Rutledge spotlights the rich significance of the Advent season not just as transitional but as vibrant and profound in its own right. With her trademark wit and wisdom, Rutledge explores Advent as a time of such paradoxes as waiting and...

Lo, he comes with clouds descending, Once for our salvation slain; Thousand thousand saints attending Swell the triumph of his train. Alleluia! Alleluia! Christ the Lord returns to reign. (Charles Wesley, eighteenth century) As this book goes to the publisher, my thoughts are often with the young preachers who have been given to me as friends, colleagues, and, dare I say, students (not to mention Twitter followers!). This is less through personal contact now than through my books
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