if you want a pure spirituality, uncontaminated by blood and sickness and appetites and conflict and politics and other people, you’ll need to look elsewhere. But if you want an earthy faith, a real faith, which embraces all our materiality and mess, look to Jesus Christ.
A reflection on Luke 2:1-20 given to <a href='https://sanctuarybaptist.wordpress.com/'>Sanctuary</a>, 24 December 2019 © Alison Sampson, Christmas 2019.

if you want a pure spirituality, uncontaminated by blood and sickness and appetites and conflict and politics and other people, you’ll need to look elsewhere. But if you want an earthy faith, a real faith, which embraces all our materiality and mess, look to Jesus Christ. A reflection on Luke 2:1-20 given to Sanctuary, 24 December 2019 © Alison Sampson, Christmas 2019.

if you want a pure spirituality, uncontaminated by blood and sickness and appetites and conflict and politics and other people, you’ll need to look elsewhere. But if you want an earthy faith, a real faith, which embraces all our materiality and mess, look to Jesus Christ.
A reflection on Luke 2:1-20 given to&nbsp;<a href="https://sanctuarybaptist.wordpress.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sanctuary</a>, 24 December 2019 © Alison Sampson, Christmas 2019.

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