The End of the World …er … Year
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The special Birth that we, as Christians, celebrate each year is once again behind us. But our opportunities to change the world are still ahead of us.
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A Progressive Christian Perspective on Christmas
How does a progressive Christian approach the Nativity and Christmas Day? The Message of the Nativity is meant to transform us and to encourage us. It’s intended to awaken in us the knowledge that we are one with God
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Like Scrooge or the Grinch we resist hearing the message of Christmas. Because it’s not just a source of comfort and joy. It’s a responsibility
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Advent – Joy – those trying to make sense of the tragedy of Sandy Hook Elementary will not find “joy”. But we may find chara.
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the Nativity says to me that “God so Trusts the world” that God put the future of the Christ in our hands
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God’s Hope, and ours, is that we nurture each other and the world with all of the love and compassion that we would the Christ child.
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The Nativity isn’t really about God’s action in “becoming” a baby. What, after all, does any baby do simply by being born? It’s our reaction to that birth that’s the measure of how effective it is.
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I sometimes wonder if we get caught up in the commercialism of Christmas to the extent that we do simply because we’ve come to believe that there’s very little we can do to bring about either “peace on earth” or something as modest as peace in our own small corner of it.
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What about those of us who understand that the promise of Emmanuel is neither some supernatural intervention nor some otherworldly utopia, but a symbol of what this world could be, right here, right now?
Where do we find the Joy in a world that is so much less than it could be? The symbolism of Emmanuel is neither some supernatural intervention nor some otherworldly utopia, but a promise of what this world could be, right here, right now.
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“And what happened then? Well, in Whoville they say that the Grinch’s small heart grew three sizes that day.” It didn’t happen because the Grinch agreed to adhere to any particular doctrine, or because he was threatened by some Zeus-god hurling thunderbolts. He wasn’t converted. He was transformed.
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