Added Thursday 3rd November 2011
This year's Advent Firesiders ask us to question our preconceptions of Christ and Christmas. In four parts, Childlike, Protest, Snow and Generous, they are available now to read and digest.
Put all the shouting and posturing to one side and what shines through is that blessed naivite. Jesus wasn't an economist nor a politician; he was Christianity's first and greatest fool, a sucker for every passing beggar, always falling for sob stories, incapable of hanging on to his loose change; throwing his weight behind apparently Utopian causes. He was an improbably unconventional figure; and if he were born today, I would like to think that it would be in a little canvas tent outside the magnificent walls of Saint Paul's.
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