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Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands he blessed them. While he blessed them, he parted from them and was carried up into heaven. – Luke 24:50-51 The year I graduated from University a fellow student, Heather Whitestone, won Miss America. Many of us who had little or [...]

The Advent season draws our thoughts to the miracle of the Incarnation, “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us” (John 1:14) – or as the Message colorfully paraphrases it “The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood”.  Our salvation was not wrought by Jesus swooping down from Heaven in a single [...]

Maker of the sun,  he is made under the sun.  In the Father he remains, from his mother he goes forth.  Creator of heaven and earth, he was born on earth under heaven.  Unspeakably wise, he is wisely speechless.  Filling the world, he lies in a manger.  Ruler of the starts, he nurses at his [...]

This is from Athanasius’ On the Incarnation 2.9. It makes me think how the incarnation brings honor to all of creation, especially embodied humanity. You know how it is when some great king enters a large city and dwells in one of its houses; because of his dwelling in that single house, the whole city [...]