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The Yucky Underside of the Nativity: Or, What You Won’t See in Next Year’s Christmas Pageant
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Jana Riess
A friend of mine recently pointed out that tomorrow is the Feast of the Holy Innocents. Don’t know what that is? Neither did I. In a nutshell, it marks that icky, violent part of the nativity story that every Christmas pageant blithely ignores: Herod perceiving that he was deluded by the wise men, was exceeding…
Busy Women, Advent Conspiracies, and the Countdown to Christmas
By
Jana Riess
I love this post from Ellen Painter Dollar over at the Introverted Church blog. She hits upon something fundamental about the irony of December: the Advent season encourages us to slow down and embrace silent reflection even as the wider culture eggs us to speed up and get ready for Christmas. This is particularly true…
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