title: The Miracle of Christmas: An Advent Study for Adults
author:  James W. Moore 
description: James W. Moore is a best-selling author of more than 40 books and an acclaimed pastor and ordained elder in The United Methodist Church. He has led congregations in Jackson, Tennessee; Shreveport, Louisiana; and Houston, Texas. In 2006, after 50 years of active ministry, he retired from full-time ministry and moved to the Dallas area, where he currently serves as Minister-in-Residence at Highland Park United Methodist Church. He and his wife, June, live at Heritage Ranch in Fairview, Texas.
zlib_text: CHRISTMAS DOUBLE ISSUE
  George Mackay Brown, Marina Warner, Eamon Duffy, A.N. Wilson, Laura Gascoigne, Sara Maitland,  
  Maggie Fergusson, Christopher Howse, Kate Hennessy, Billy O’Callaghan, Joanna Moorhead, Mark Lawson,  
  Alexandra Coghlan, Lucy Lethbridge, David Gardner, Julia Langdon, Margaret Hebblethwaite, Sue Gaisford, 
  William Pryor, Nicholas Vincent, Peter Stanford, Anthony Gardner, Catherine Pepinster and D.J. Taylor
  THE INTERNATIONAL 
  CATHOLIC WEEKLY
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  2  |  THE TABLET  |  19/26 DECEMBER 2020
  D
  oes the unusual proliferation of outdoor 
  Christmas lights in residential streets this 
  year signify anything? Is it on a par with the 
  Thursday evening “clap for carers” of last 
  spring? That was an extraordinary public expression 
  of thanks for nurses, doctors and others during the 
  first wave of the pandemic. Both appear to be a 
  spontaneous expression of something many people 
  felt – of the need for community, of wanting to 
  p