According to an awful lot of politicians, our response to world events should be fear, surveillance, hard-heartedness and exclusion. They want to prevent Syrian refugees from coming to this country or settling in their states. They want to surveil mosques and register Muslims. They want to drop more bombs and kill more people. They think this will keep us safe. As we approach Christmas, I find myself wondering if many Christians have, in their fear, forgotten the vulnerability of incarnation--a baby born to traveling parents who could not even find a place to spend the night; a small child threatened by a king, whose family became refugees in Egypt; a...
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