“Me Too!” Taking Christmas Personally

Michael Card—one of my heroes and one of the most biblically astute songwriters I know—once told me that when we start finishing the bible’s sentences for it, it’s time for us to get a new translation or otherwise mix things up a little. His point was that the bible, its’ characters, and the God they point to should surprise us, and that the moment we think we have it all figured out is probably the moment we’ve lost touch with the living mystery of it all.
 
Christmas is especially vulnerable to our familiarity with it. To complicate matters, there are[…]