Key Highlights
- “Fear not,” he says, and, in a way, this sombre reassurance is the Yuletide message in drastic miniature.
- This kid Jesus will save the world, Gabriel assures Mary.
- But if you’ve only known the world as it is—small, dark, inhospitable, beset by imperial Rome—you might be right not to get totally excited about what comes next.
- One person’s salvation might be somebody else’s death. And then, of course, there’s the sheer fear of birth.
- So much blood to bring love into the world!
