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2019 Daily Advent Reflections

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Welcome to the Word, scripture reflections from America Media! Join us as we offer daily scripture reflections for the entire Advent season. 

Our Advent reflections are written by Elizabeth Kirkland Cahill and produced by Isabelle Senechal. 

First Sunday of Advent:

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Elizabeth Kirkland Cahill

Elizabeth Kirkland Cahill is an author, lecturer, and Biblical scholar.  She holds degrees from Harvard (Classics), Oxford (English Language and Literature), and Yale Divinity School (Religion, with a concentration in Hebrew Bible).  She is the co-author, with Joseph Papp, of Shakespeare Alive! (Bantam Books), and is a contributor to Commonweal and America.

Tucker Redding, S.J.

Tucker Redding, S.J., is a Jesuit scholastic and an assistant producer of audio and video at America.

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