An Advent Story

December 7, 2024 Presbytery Pause (TKeenan) - Jacob Marley and Bob Marley paid me a visit the other night.

Yes, both of them. And yes, it’s an unlikely pair.

One, of course, is a figure from Victorian English literature and the other an iconic Jamaican singer/songwriter and activist from the 1960s and ‘70s.

Both were “certainly dead, to begin with,[1]” as the Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, says in its opening. So they were definitely ghosts.

[1] From opening sentence of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, 1843

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