Quote of the Week

God did not wrap himself up in flesh, humbling himself to the point of birth in a stable and death on a cross, eating, laughing, weeping, and suffering as one of us, so that I can complain to management when a barista at Starbucks wishes me "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas." The incarnation isn’t about desperately grasping at the threads of power and privilege. It’s not about making some civic holiday "bigger and better." It’s about surrendering power, setting aside privilege, and finding God in the smallness and vulnerability of a baby in a womb.
--Rachel Held Evans, "Mary, the Magnificat, and an Unsentimental Advent," Rachel Held Evans' Blog, December 05, 2017