The Combination of Royalty & Stooping

It's been a few decades since Diana, Princess of Wales passed away in that tragic car accident. At the time, I was a teenager, and really didn’t understand what the massive outpouring of grief shown on the news was all about. Clearly though, I could sense something different in the way people were reacting, even if perhaps the response was a bit unhealthy.

Recently, I’ve been reading through Fleming Rutledge’s book, Advent, which includes both an essay on the season and a series of sermons. In one sermon, given in 1999, Rutledge pinpoints, in some detail, what it was that…