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The Forgotten Tragedies of the Christmas Story

Christ’s advent is an astonishing story of God’s power and light breaking into our darkness, doubt, and suffering.
Christmas hope is grounded both in the reality of Christ’s first advent and also in the reality that he will come again to fully establish the peace his princely rule has promised. This is one of the great paradoxes of the faith: Christ has come, and he is coming. The kingdom has arrived, yet we pray “Thy kingdom come.”
The story of Epiphany provides a timeless lesson on the corrosive influence of politics on religion and religious leaders, revealing the unique temptation faced by the religious establishment, at all times and places, to maintain prestige and power.
Christ’s advent is an astonishing story of God’s power and light breaking into our darkness, doubt, and suffering.