Sunday, December 25, 2011

A Christmas Poem


In the bleak midwinter
The Christ Child again 
asks to enter into our hearts
and melt the ice that insists 
on forming there
against our better judgment-- 
our attempts at thawing
only serving to set it afire
in a soul-consuming explosion--
our attempts at cooling 
turning it once again
to ice. 

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"Slavery ended in medieval Europe only because the church extended its sacraments to all slaves and then managed to impose a ban on the enslavement of Christians (and of Jews). Within the context of medieval Europe, that prohibition was effectively a rule of universal abolition. "— Rodney Stark

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