The Politics of Advent: Christmas Stories as Resistance

Do you have trouble with the Christmas stories? Wandering stars. Virgin births. Angels. Are they too unbelievable? Are they too familiar? Too simplistic? Have you been told you need to take every word literally or you’re not sufficiently Christian? And what does politics have to do with any of this? If any of this resonates, […]

Baby Sized Signs

Christmas, for the Western church, is over. (Happy Christmas to Orthodox readers!) The Christmas stories are full of signs and so I’ve been thinking about signs- the ways God makes God’s self and God’s desires known to us. Sometimes God makes a “statement”. Pillars of fire. Parting seas. Obvious signs that we should pay attention. […]