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  • Ghosts of Christmas’ Past

    We are of course familiar with the image of ghosts of Christmas’ past thanks to Charles Dickens, ‘A Christmas Carol,’ penned in A.D. 1843. Dickens points toward a morality of generosity during a great 19th century division between a well-off gentry class and the working poor. Even today his theme of the repentance of Scrooge…

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    Roger Harned
    Much has changed in Christianity and Church jargon since the 19th and 29th centuries. Tuesday, December 27, 2011: Ghost of Christmas Past This is a photograph that hangs inside Trinity depicting one of my predecessors on the front steps on a snowy day about a hundred years ago, 1872 church.