Monday digest

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New today from the Century:

• The editors on the budget deal and the House Speaker: "The budget deal was no grand bargain, but there was one grand outcome: the House Speaker stood up to the insurgent right. Is this the new normal?"

• Amy Frykholm on hosting her first Las Posadas celebration

• John Buchanan on keeping Christmas: "The miracle of love is that the more you love, the more alive you are. Keeping Christmas is believing in the transforming power of love."

• Carol Howard Merritt's tips for writers working within a denomination

• A brief review of April Yamasaki