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Mindy Misener
Mindy Misener, a former teacher of college writing, is a student at Yale Divinity School.
Reflecting the light (Isaiah 60:1-6; Matthew 2:1-12)
Maybe we ask too much of ourselves—and too little of God—if we expect to produce light.
The Verb made flesh? (John 1:1-18)
In Spanish-language Bibles, there’s no consensus as to how to translate Logos.
January 6, Epiphany (Ephesians 3:1–12; Matthew 2:1–12)
Herod is frightened—or disturbed, or troubled, or all of the above.
January 4, Christmas 2 (Jeremiah 31:7–14; John 1:(1–9), 10–18)
The child staggering out of a bomb-blasted city does not need to find her home in God. She needs a physical home.
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