Immigration is a hot button issue. Lately it has been quite popular to identify Jesus as a refugee with reference to Mary and Joseph fleeing with him to Egypt to escape Herod's infanticide. Is this really the text from which to derive a political policy about immigration and refugees? Is Mary, Joseph and Jesus with saddlebags full of gold, frankincense and myrrh really akin to sub-Saharan migrants on rubber dinghies crossing the English Channel with only the clothes on their backs? Or Hispanic migrants being muled through the North American desert?

Magicians? Three Kings? Who are these Wise Men and what are they really all about? Is this a subversive entourage from a rival empire - a threat to Rome? How political is Jesus, actually? Is this what the Gospel authors and first readers really care about?

Was Joseph just a bit of a dirty dog or Mary just a bit keen? Is this whole suggestion just a bit of fan fiction nonsense, or Christian appropriation of local myth? Or does the virgin conception and birth of Jesus of Nazareth mean far more than we could imagine? This episode of The Guerrilla Church Podcast dives in to these questions and more.

It's getting to be Christmas time! What's with all this angel stuff? Are angels for real or just a spiritualised attempt to legitimise something? How do we know? Actually, how do we know anything?

What is The Guerrilla Church Podcast? Who is Peter Nevins? It only takes 10 minutes to find out.