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“We face a similar choice each Christmas, and so each Advent is a time of repentance for the past and change for the future. Do we think that peace on earth comes from Caesar or Christ? Do we think it comes through violent victory or nonviolent justice? Advent, like Lent, is about a choice of how to live personally and individually, nationally and internationally.”
― The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Say About Jesus's Birth
― The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Say About Jesus's Birth
“we are to participate with God in bringing about the world promised by Christmas.”
― The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Say About Jesus's Birth
― The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Say About Jesus's Birth
“empire is not intrinsically about geographical expansion and territorial acquisition. As a nation, that is not our aim. Rather, empire is about the use of superior power—military, political, and economic—to shape the world as the empire sees fit. In this sense, we are the new Rome.”
― The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Say About Jesus's Birth
― The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Say About Jesus's Birth
“God will not change us as individuals without our participation, and God will not change the world without our participation.”
― The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Say About Jesus's Birth
― The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Say About Jesus's Birth
“The four-week period of Advent before Christmas—and the six-week period of Lent before Easter—are times of penance and life change for Christians. In our book The Last Week, we suggested that Lent was a penance time for having been in the wrong procession and a preparation time for moving over to the right one by Palm Sunday. That day’s violent procession of the horse-mounted Pilate and his soldiers was contrasted with the nonviolent procession of the donkey-mounted Jesus and his companions. We asked: in which procession would we have walked then and in which do we walk now?”
― The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Say About Jesus's Birth
― The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Say About Jesus's Birth
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