I write you this email from a house—my house—full of in-laws. When my wife and I agreed to 16 consecutive days of hosting her family from out of town, did we make a terrible mistake? Time will tell, my friends. Pray for us.
Jokes aside, we are grateful to spend time with family over the holidays. I’m also always grateful this time of year for those moments when the busy schedules slow down and there is room for contemplation. And so I’m excited to introduce you to some of our new thoughtful content. First, the two articles featured in last week’s Going Deeper discussion resource (sign up for free here): Rachel Mann’s exploration of what it means for us to consider an infant God and Stephanie Perdew’s reflection on the prayers of protection she uttered during the US election season.
“Christmas, with its focus on vulnerability and gift, can be not only a corrective to an overweening sense of the goodness of being an adult but specifically a reminder of God’s hallowing of that most dependent mode of being human: infancy.”
“In the days when I served a progressive-identified, White suburban congregation, I got in some trouble when I proclaimed from the pulpit that neither candidate would be our savior and that was OK, because we already had one.”
