The birth of Jesus prompted some extreme responses.

On one hand, there was an outpouring of worship, adoration and celebration... all to a baby boy.

On the other hand, there was a narcissistic, genocidal, resentful response.

Some may ask "Surely there's a third way? Some sort of measured response?"

Maybe that's been part of our issue around Christmas: thinking of it as a nice, safe, innocuous story that doesn't have much of an effect on our day to day lives.

So how are WE going to respond to this "first noel"?