Premature nativity

08 November 2013

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From the Revd Christopher Johnson

Sir, - The commercial Christmas season edges ever further into the autumn; but how can the C of E reverse this trend when on 4 November we have just read about the birth of our Lord in the morning lessons?

CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON
St Mary's House, Staunton on Wye
Hereford HR4 7LT

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