Tag: Christmas
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Interlude: The Women of Christmas
History tells us men should announce the good news of God’s kingdom. But God doesn’t play by those rules.
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Becoming Truly Human
In his work On the Incarnation, the 4th century church father Athanasius of Alexandria wrote, “He [Jesus] became what we are that we might become what he is.” At first glance, it might be easy to think Athanasius means we become god–or a god. Certainly theologians over the years have argued that. But that’s not […]
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The Pits and Christmas
It’s the pits. The worst, most depressing situation you can imagine. We use it playfully today, exaggerating our circumstance. The saying has lost its luster. But it was not always so. Out of the 150 chapters in Psalms, perhaps as many as 65 to 67 of them are laments or what we can call “complaint […]
JAMES PRUCH 