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Intro to "Advent": Though I am sometimes guilty of it, I love the shade Olcese throws at binging straight through a TV series. Before said shade, she quotes Bonhoeffer: "Celebrating Advent means being able to wait. Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten...Whoever does not know the austere blessedness of waiting—that is, of hopefully doing without—will never experience the full blessing of fulfillment"

This book's "a way to bring [communal liturgy] home & weave it into one of our richest cultural activities: watching movies... Abraham Kuyper['s notion] of common grace advanced the idea that God's gifts, including those of artistic talent, are lavished on all of humanity—believers and non- alike—[and fall] beneath God's sovereignty. As such, reflections of God's grace & truth can be found in unexpected places." – p2