Philip Kolin’s poems for the holy, violent earth
Yearning for the impossible, glimpsing the unimaginable
Christmas | First Sunday after Christmas (Year A)
Isaiah 63:7-9; Psalm 148; Hebrews 2:10-18; Matthew 2:13-23
God called all of them good. Humans are rapidly destroying them.
The beloved song can contain God’s glory no more than the scripture it’s based on.
"What an awful story," she said. "Why would that story be in the Bible?"