It’s been one month since we celebrated Epiphany. Even though the Magi and all the other statues in our Nativity scenes are now packed away again in storage, we can imagine that if the real Magi had ...

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One can read the twinned stories of the flight to Egypt and the massacre of the infants in Bethlehem as an example of how Matthew likes to depict Jesus as the fulfillment of the promises of the Old ...

Herod’s massacre of the innocents in Matthew 2 challenges us to participate in the “groans” of God’s world. I detest the Christmas season—not so much for the commercialism that, after all, runs ...