A nativity scene in Bethlehem's Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church shows the newborn infant Jesus lying in the ruins of a concrete building, symbolizing God's presence in the rubble of Gaza. The pastor who created the scene, Rev. Munther Isaac, believes that this is where we find God right now. Despite not being a Christian, the author appreciates the teachings of Jesus and is deeply moved by the meaning of the Christmas story.
Every now and then an image perfectly captures the moment, in all its light or darkness.I was struck by the creche that was set up in Bethlehem ’s Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church after that city’s Christians canceled this year’s Christmas celebrations. You’ve probably seen it: it shows the Nativity scene, as all such displays do, but the newborn infant Jesus is lying in the ruins of a concrete building.“ God is under the rubble in Gaza ,” says the pastor who created the creche, Rev.
Munther Isaac. “This is where we find God right now.”I’m not a Christian, if Christianity means embracing the theology of a threefold God and the idea of Jesus as the sole source of personal salvation. But I love the teachings of Jesus as they’ve been conveyed. And I’ve been deeply moved by the meaning of the Christmas story, even if I can’t accept it literally. It says that God, the most powerful entity that ever was or ever could be, chose to enter this world in the most helpless form we humans can imagine: a newborn infant. And not just any infant, either. A Jewish infant. A homeless infan
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