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H. Paul Santmire Dec 17, 2024

For the first time, I will be sharing my annual Christmas letter not only via US Postal mail, but now, here, on my Walking Thoughts blog. "Are the meek getting ready? Everything in our day suggests that..." I hope you might consider reading it. https://hpaulsantmire.net/christmas-2024-the-meek-are-getting-ready/
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Christmas 2024: The Meek Are Getting Ready

...Are the meek getting ready? Everything in our day suggests that, if they are, they’re going to have a tough time. Ours is the era of the rank suppression and dispersal of the meek by the Strong Men. The Christmas Gospel, in marked contrast, is about the emergent power of the meekest of all: the strange promise of a certain baby, born in a peasant’s stable, who would become a constant threat to all the Herods of this world...

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H. Paul Santmire Mar 22, 2024

That great and much publicized biblical text, John 3:16, came up in the church’s lectionary this Lent, as many worshippers may recall. Here it is, in part: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son…”

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John 3:16 and Holy War

The Rev. Dr. H. Paul Santmire is a historian and pastoral scholar in the disciplines of ecological theology, environmental ethics, and Christian liturgy and spirituality.

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