
About this episode
We live in a bad time, maybe so bad that we have no reason to celebrate Christmas. But there is a close relationship between bad times and the coming of Christ among us and for us. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
Produced by Binu Alex
About the Speaker: Father William Grimm, a native of New York City, is a missioner and presbyter who since 1973 has served in Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York, he is the active emeritus publisher of UCA News. Now based in the United States, he regularly contributes columns, some of which have been collected in the UCA News e-book Spoutings. He is also the presenter of popular Sunday homilies telecast by UCA News each week. A collection of those homilies has been published as Dialogue of One.
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