As members of Christian “families” - situated in our current time and place, we are offered the same in Christ. We are offered dignity, wholeness, restoration, refreshment, and forgiveness in ...

Decades of Roman rule were causing ever more resentment. Jesus was born to a family from a village called Nazareth, near the Sea of Galilee. As he was growing up, Judaea was collapsing into chaos.

Claremont United Methodist Church transformed its Christmas nativity scene into a powerful statement about family separation by caging their figures of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph and releasing a ...