Because Herod News Today

 

Who knows what 2021 will bring? This year the familiar question comes with especial powerlessness; a world cowed by the pandemic, incapable of making any solid plans. What structure can we put around

(Read this series from its beginning here.)   Again, if we are to rediscover the original subversive power of the birth narratives of Jesus and rightly apply those stories to our lives today, we must read them in the context of the lives and hopes of people in the 1 st Century Galilee and Judea who daily faced dehumanizing and economically crushing oppression. Matthew’s ‘King of the Jews’ uses a title reserved for Herod the Great. And Luke’s “Son of God”, Savior of the world, the ...