Embracing the Bastard Jesus
Posted in Commentary, Opinions / Ideas on Jan 15th, 2009
One of my Sunday school teens, Jamal, asked me several Advent seasons ago if the church was going to hear the usual Christmas sermon about baby Jesus being born in a manger. Because if so, as he pointedly said to me, “I ain’t feeling it, Rev.”
I have been bothered every Christmas by our culture’s egregious [...]