An apocalyptic retelling of the Christmas story
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This is a CBC podcast. Welcome to Ideas. I'm Nala Ayed. They receive the message of the great joy, and they believe it with joy. Christmas
is a time for stories. They go and they see not a prophet, not a spirit, but the flesh, in which the glory of the Lord will be revealed. For Christians, that story is about a time when God became a person, a baby. He had indeed emptied himself, taken the form of God's servant, man, But he did not empty himself to the point of becoming mass man, faceless man, born to save the world and bring about an enduring peace.
So what happened? Did we miss it? And what happens next? These are questions that Thomas Merton, Trappist monk and author of the Seven Story Mountain, grappled with in his own meditation on the Christmas story. It's called The Time of the End is the Time of No Room.
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