Is joy truly to the world?

David K. Shelley

Did Matthew introduce the Magi to emphasize the Good News to foreigners? It’s not new for people to see their own kind as important, and to see foreigners as unworthy—maybe even to hate and persecute them.  The Lord of the Bible sees that as a problem. When the Lord tells his people to care for the […]

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Heaven’s Subversion of our hate reflexes

David K. Shelley

To judge by the current content of our media, the hope of the world is that we destroy our perceived enemies, whether they be our own politicians or given sides in European or Near-Eastern wars.  It’s us against them, winner take all—a fallen world view that has been inflicting suffering since Cain murdered Abel.  A more Heavenly […]

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