Liberating Christmas 2023

Liberating Christmas 2023

Joerg Rieger, Vanderbilt University

“Don’t let yourself be thrown off course”—“Lass dich nicht aus der Bahn werfen.” These were the words my father said to me in his Swabian-German dialect when we said goodbye for the last time. He passed away this summer, on another continent. In places where Christianity is the religion of the majority, this may sound like an odd piece of advice. If faith and religion are part of the dominant status quo, why would there be a danger of being thrown off course?

Read more here