Reading Matthew 2:16-18 is like walking into a news story you never wanted to see. In fact, it’s so horrific that usually I gloss over it as I read. Last year, for the first time, I lingered on what happened after goodness saves Jesus from Herod. (Though many Matthew scholars say this probably never happened, …
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Matthew calls Jesus Immanuel, God with us. Yet having God-with-us meant fear and worry for Mary and Joseph as they rushed away to Egypt with a tiny baby. Perhaps they did not feel or know the power of God, as refugees from Herod’s sword, going back to the place of their ancestor’s slavery. Maybe Mary wondered, Just …
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Yesterday, Marshall wanted to know about his dad’s experiences of being parented as a child in the 1960s. Behaviorism was the norm back then; a lot of kids were expected to do chores on threat of punishment, and spanked or hit for disobedience. Marshall said, “Is God like that?” His words echoed in the spiritual …
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I saw him on the trampoline, this tiny human-like creature, his naked wings like flailing arms. He rested as though he had given up, and then he would move his bottom up into the air, or open his beak wide to be fed. His little feathery head spoke of his absent parents. Where were they? …
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