Presiding Bishop’s Christmas Sermon Focuses on Peace

I met an Englishwoman this week, and when I mentioned this service, she told me of her visit to Bethlehem several years ago, and her horror when she saw the wall surrounding that city.  She said she can no longer see a manger scene without thinking of that wall, complete with bullet holes and graffiti.

There is a Palestinian Christian woman in Bethlehem who sells olive wood manger scenes.  Each one comes with a wall running through it.  The wall is removable, if you can’t quite deal with its reality.[1]

The rest of Bishop Jefferts Schori’s sermon can be found here.