WITH your ‘Badvent’ feature having drawn to a close' (Oxford Mail, December 24), you have to admire the ingenuity at adapting the name of ‘Advent’ to fit the cause of justice.

I wonder whether you would have been so quick to parody the run-up to another world religion’s major festival?

The good news of Advent was that at its end was Christmas Day: the birth of Jesus signalled hope for the present and the future.

The message of Christmas buried somewhere beneath the snow and commercial business is that God became one of us and experienced what it means to be human, both the good bits and the bad bits.

Advent is about restoration and redemption. Maybe next year the Mail could find another way of pursuing its criminal-finding cause?

The Rev Dr Helen-Ann Hartley, Ripon College, Cuddesdon