"Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Nathanael (John 1:46) I love Christmas carols and have enjoyed singing some this Christmas season, though fewer than when I was in full time church ministry. Obviously as a Unitarian Christian some of the words I think are problematic, but one of the most problematic, said in many ways in different carols and liturgies this season is "he came down to earth from heaven." This is something said again and again at Christmas time - that Jesus is "from heaven." That Jesus' real home is heaven, some otherworldly spiritual place that he temporarily left to live a brief existence some other place, an earthly place where he never really belonged to, because he really belonged in heaven. Heaven is his home. Heaven is where Jesus is from . I disagree. Jesus is not from heaven. Jesus is indigenous. Jesus is from Nazareth, a small town, that even at the time it seems was a rather small, unimportant place. Maybe even a no...
Seeking paradise in Cardiff