Epiphany of the Lord

Is Matthew so embarrassed by Bethlehem’s lowly status in Micah that he feels the need to punch it up a little?

Do they later say to their friends, “How could we not have known?”

In welcoming the Magi into her home, Mary opens the door to the whole world.

And six stars they offer for our own

It must have been a strange sight: grown adults, prostrate before a toddler.

The glorious and impressive features are only half of the story.

Theology is not popularly understood to be a landscape where dreams are welcome.

It’s all too much like a fairy tale.

Epiphany is the ultimate bad-guy story.

Epiphanies come to us in all shapes and sizes.

Genealogies suggest a beautiful inevitability even amid political impossibility.

This story sounds like a video game.

The wise men remind us that stargazing always involves politics.