Friday digest

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New today from the Century:

• Peter Marty on Christmas unvarnished: "I once preached a Christmas sermon that struck out with one family. I had underestimated the peril of tampering with holiday sentiment." (subscription required)

• Carol Howard Merritt on Sandy Hook and public theology

• John Buchanan on hearing a good post-Shady Hook children's sermon: "On Sunday I attended a worship service at which the air was heavy with a sense of loss. But I saw the church being the church at its best." (subscription required)

• Steven Porter on censorship of the Top 40

• "Third baptism," a poem by Rachel Brownson

• Steve Thorngate's setting of the Magnificat