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We recently took our girls to the movies to see The Man Who Invented Christmas, the focus of which is the transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge, from what is described in the story as a “squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner” to a benevolent, sociable man, to one who “possess(es) an emotional depth [and] a regret for lost opportunities”.
At this Christmas time, a time of Christian celebration, it is an important time to reflect, both personally and nationally.
One of Dickens’ biographers interprets the transformation of Scrooge as carrying the Christian message that “even the…
