Today is Epiphany. Liturgically speaking, Christmas officially ended yesterday, January 5 (the proverbial twelfth day of Christmas). Epiphany commemorates the Magi's visit to the Christ Child, taken as symbolic of Christ's revelation as the manifestation of God's love for all people, not only to his own tribe. Given that theme, it strikes me as especially appropriate to be praying on this day for a truce in Gaza.
My eyes have seen your salvation,
which you have prepared before the face of all people—
a light to lighten the Gentiles,
and the glory of your people Israel.
(Luke 2:30-32)
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About Me
- John-Charles Duffy
- I'm a gay Mormon intellectual—excommunicated from the LDS Church in 2007—who remains committed to the Latter Day Saint tradition as my “first language” for spirituality. I am also the creator of the websites LDSEndowment.org and LiberalMormon.net. At this blog, I speak in a very personal voice. I blog in my professional persona, as a teacher of religious studies, at ProjectilePluralism.wordpress.com.
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