Just about everyone knows the Christmas story of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, but how many people know the Christmas story of Jesus, Maria, and Jose? Consider this. Could God become human a second time? Could it be that last year that God had once again bridged the gap between the divine and the human when a young Milwaukee woman conceived a child and then gave birth to a son nine months later in Chicago? What if this holy family were now in Mexico, waiting for immigration reform, getting ready to celebrate Jesus’ first birthday?
You can read this short, short, story on this blog. Go to “O Little Town of Chicago” in the Specials menu.
About a dozen years ago some very talented people created a musical based on the idea, what if God had not become a human two thousand years ago. What if God waited until the end of the twentieth century to become incarnate? What if Jesus were an African-American born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania? They called the musical !HERO, and released it as a novel, a set of comic books, a CD, and a DVD. It’s urban and gritty and full of gripping music. Check it out for yourself. Here’s their musical version of the Jairus’ daughter miracle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xRKTFlYcyg
Next week postcards return to Germany, Jesus’ mouse meets a woman at a well, and we learn how to interpret dreams.
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Yes, Jesus could easily be born in Philadelphia now as an African-American child. In fact he has because we all have Jesus in us.
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