24 December 2012
Memories embedded with romantic pictures of Jesus’ birth are quite impossible to rewrite. Retold by Christmas pageants, reminded by carols and pictures replenish what we think happened at Jesus...
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24 December 2012
“The Cry,” Munich’s painting of a young woman’s primeval scream standing on a bridge in a sunlit day came to mind as I witnessed unbelievable horror and tried to feel the...
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19 December 2012
“Twenty children killed.” It is a similar refrain to the early life of Jesus. King Herod ordered children under two killed in the Judean village of Bethlehem when he heard from the...
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05 December 2012
War and suffering takes on a different look when seen through the eyes of those fleeing mass killing. I spent part of an afternoon in a tent (part of a camp of 40,000 Syrian refugees) with a Syrian...
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