Just as our GPS doesn’t leave us for lost if we don’t follow the digital arrow when we find ourselves on a precipitous path ...

One can read the twinned stories of the flight to Egypt and the massacre of the infants in Bethlehem as an example of how Matthew likes to depict Jesus as the fulfillment of the promises of the Old ...

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Herod’s massacre of the innocents in Matthew 2 challenges us to participate in the “groans” of God’s world. I detest the Christmas season—not so much for the commercialism that, after all, runs ...