Christmas is a mess. Well, the story of Christmas is about a mess: messy childbirth, in messy circumstances, with messy people hanging about and visiting. And yet … Perhaps we need to remember that when life is a mess, that is exactly where Jesus came to meet us. In fact, God consistently comes to meet […]
Archive | 2014/12/25
Christmas Eve – the enigma of light
Physics is cool: the physics of light is an enigma, because light can have the properties of both waves and particles, and its behaviour as one or the other is unpredictable. So is the idea of God incarnate an enigma, divine power rendered into a defenceless child. Yet the light this child brings into the […]