The Christmas Heirloom: Four Holiday Novellas of Love Through the Generations Lisa-Ann Gershwin A comedy depends on stopping

A comedy depends on stopping the story at exactly the right moment

Looking at the New Testament through the lens of literary study

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and historian Arnold Toynbee who speculated on why belief in an afterlife is universal

and Europe increasingly becoming a population of "Nones" (unchurched adults who identify with no religion)

The Christmas Heirloom: Four Holiday Novellas of Love Through the Generations Lisa-Ann Gershwin A comedy depends on stoppingIn Kristi Ann Hunter's "Legacy of Love," Sarah Gooding never suspected returning a brooch to an elderly woman would lead to a job . . . and introduce her to the woman's grandson, a man far above her station. In Karen Witemeyer's "Gift of the Heart," widow Ruth Albright uses the family brooch as collateral for a loan from the local banker. But the more she comes to know the man behind the stern businessman, the more she hopes for a second chance at