New light on the Epiphany

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Sometimes we grow weary of the same texts as they come up year after year. We may even suggest that maybe this year we should not do the Christmas pageant, but a different story instead.

Bad idea. It’s like changing the menu of a traditional meal the whole family expects for Christmas dinner. It may be that we have decided what the story means and think, Oh, no, here we go again. That is why it is so vitally important to read or see as many interpretations of it as we can find.