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Flunking Sainthood
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…
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