The heretic is the hero. The unclean are equals. The despised, the rejected, the ‘sinners’ are all invited to eat at his table
Whether you celebrate it religiously or socially, it’s hard to be distant from loved ones at Christmas. Emotional reunions at airports as people return home with the lifting of travel restrictions have been some of the most beautiful images of this year. Distance may be practical - caused by quarantine, closed borders, finances, work or inability to travel.
But there’s another form of distance that many experience at these times of cultural importance. The kind of distance you can feel when sitting around the dinner table with your family or the painful chasm of being not invited at all. It’s the distance of judgement, shame and rejection based on religious, cultural or social norms that one has not conformed to.
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