“When the angels came to sing ‘Peace on earth’ to the damned, Jesus Christ was born into the company of the damned. He took on our own darkness by becoming dark like us. That’s what it means when John says, ‘The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.’ He does not sing to us – aloof, pedantic, Pollyannaish – he sings with us and for us.” Paul Walker, Sermons from the Cathedral Church of the Advent