Let’s begin with one of the most exciting parts of the nativity story- the genealogy. What? You don’t think genealogies are exciting? Well it may not be exciting reading, but as a prelude to the gospel, it has some interesting and important things to tell us. For us as people living in the era of […]
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The Politics of Advent: Orienting Us to the Kingdom of God
There are two nativity stories. One in Matthew’s Gospel and one in Luke’s Gospel. Mark and John do not have stories about Jesus birth. If you read Luke’s nativity story, there is almost as much about the birth of John as there is about Jesus and most of the rest of the story is about […]
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