Merry Christmas from all of us at Save the Parish!
A message from Save The Parish founder Marcus Walker: I hope you have been able to celebrate well, wherever you have found yourself this Christmas. There is something intensely parochial about this particular feast (parochial being meant entirely positively, as you would hope!) All the key moments are small scale: a child born to a mother; a couple needing to return to their family home; the risk of scandal. Christ is born into a family, with uncles and aunts and cousins; he is known to a community, who wonder how on earth Joseph the carpenter's son can possibly be preaching to them about the Eternal God. And yet overshadowing the whole story are questions of national and global significance: tax inspectors from a pan-Mediterranean empire, death-squads of a local tyrant, wise men from the East. The interplay of the intimately local and the powerfully global tells the story of Christianity - of the Word which is both in the beginning with God and becoming fl...