This past weekend, many Christians around the world celebrated the feast of Epiphany. The day commemorates, among other things, the visit by the “wise men from the east” to the birthplace of Jesus. The celebration highlights the paradoxes at the heart of the Christian faith: those with great learning come to pay tribute to one who can not yet speak. God enters the world with his glory veiled, the light of truth shining out of the darkness of a cave. It is a remarkable turn: God himself collides with the ordinary, mundane realities of human life.
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Matthew Lee Anderson
Matthew Lee Anderson is an Associate Professor of Ethics and Theology in Baylor University's Honors College. He has a D.Phil. in Christian Ethics from Oxford University, and is a Perpetual Member of Biola University's Torrey Honors College. In 2005, he founded Mere Orthodoxy.
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