In this time of year as we are poised to go headlong into the end-of-the-year holiday season and everywhere we go the sounds of familiar carols are piped into elevators, stores, and restaurants, Rev. Maddie Sifantus will consider the historic hymn sung in this season which was written by Unitarian minister Edmund Hamilton Sears: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear. What is this so-called angel song, and who was the minister who wrote it? Who knew it was a Hymn of Resistance?!