Everybody knows that Christmas is a season of joy. For one, it has at its heart a birth story. A new and healthy child came into the world, and his family rejoiced. Every birth is a new beginning, a fresh hope. Christmas joy overlaps with the most common of humanity\u2019s great joys.<\/p>\n
We tend not to associate joy with Epi\u00adphany. In Epiphany, Christians re\u00admember the visit that the sages from the East made to Bethlehem to honor the newborn Jesus, an act of gentile recognition of Christ\u2019s divinity and mission (Matt. 2:1\u201312). In this season we also commemorate the first miracle Jesus performed\u2014at the wedding in Cana of Galilee, when Jesus revealed his glory and his disciples believed in him (John 2:1\u201311). Each of these seemingly unrelated events highlights a crucial aspect of joy.<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Forgiveness comes sometimes in droplets, in bits and pieces,” says theologian Miroslav Volf, in our Consider Forgiveness video series. “We need to think of [forgiveness] as a practice, as living into something.” https:\/\/t.co\/wKPx3fEfNJ<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/Fp0b9HU4kG<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Fetzer Institute (@FetzerInstitute) January 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n