The labor and delivery portrayed in the Christmas story has been highly sanitized. We have softened the realities of Christ’s birth with pillowy mounds of straw, cattle gently lowing, moonlight ...
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Seeing the Christmas story with more than eyes [opinion]

The labor and delivery portrayed in the Christmas story has been highly sanitized. We have softened the realities of Christ’s birth with pillowy mounds of straw, cattle gently lowing, moonlight ...
The word “behold” is an imperative, a command that shouts “look!” “Behold” is meant to grab you by both shoulders and give you a shake. To behold something goes far beyond sight. The root of the verb ...
The labor and delivery portrayed in the Christmas story has been highly sanitized, as it should be. We have softened the realities of Christ’s birth with pillowy mounds of straw, cattle gently lowing, ...