Christian and Jewish Angels

Joseph Bottum is my favorite among Christian writers; I read him religiously, as it were, for a decade before we met, and before he asked me to join the masthead of the monthly magazine First Things in 2009. The fact that he is a close friend, therefore, has nothing to do with my admiration for his work; I have several close friends who write badly, and admire any number of writers whom I abhor as human beings. His Christmas meditation â??Angels I Have Heard on Highâ? was a holiday delicacy to be savored. Jody has heard angel voices singing, â??high in the wind, across a western meadow frozen stiff and covered with the fallen snow.â? I  wish him many more such blessed encounters.