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Jesus and the Egyptian Gods

By Robin Bates | Published: December 29, 2020

Jesus’s flight into Egypt resonates with the symbolism of multiple religions.

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A Barn Shall Harbor Heaven

By Robin Bates | Published: December 19, 2020

In Richard Wilbur’s “Christmas Hymn,” low and high meet as we have the promise of worlds reconciled.

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There’s More to Christmas Than We Think

By Robin Bates | Published: December 19, 2016

When fundamentalist Christians say that there is a war on Christmas, they point to secular and pagan threats. But many of the symbols they embrace are borrowed from other religions traditions, as this Scott Bates poem makes clear.

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No Room for Them in the (Holiday) Inn

By Robin Bates | Published: December 25, 2012

In Scott Bates’s updated nativity scene, there is no room for Mary and Josephn in the Holiday Inn.

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