Christmas Eve (Year 2, NL)

Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones argues that to name Mary as Black is to challenge Christianity’s complicity in colonization and to claim sacred Blackness.

The Christmas story is scandalous because of its specificity.

It’s likely that Jesus was born in a cave. Does that make any difference?

In the last year of his life, Martin Luther King Jr.’s confidence in the politics of progressivism dimmed. Judgment became his refrain.

What if we imagined the innkeeper as good?

When does tonight become tomorrow? Is it the first glint of daybreak? The first breath of the baby?

Is Matthew so embarrassed by Bethlehem’s lowly status in Micah that he feels the need to punch it up a little?

God is humbly present in every living creature. Maybe closer than we’ve imagined.

Mary and Joseph must have felt dejected and homeless.

The God of exiles, refugees, and migrants still shines light amid today’s present darkness.

I probably shouldn’t treat my own son like he’s the Messiah. Imagine the pressure.