Why Christmas is the story of a ceasefire
By 
Chris Llewellyn2023-11-28T13:38:00
A peace agreement between God and humanity has been reached, writes Rend Collective’s Chris Llewellyn
It’s not going to be easy to sing ‘Silent night’ this year. Because the sad truth is, all around the world, all is not calm, and all is not bright.
In so many places, the idea of sleeping “in heavenly peace” seems a very distant, naive notion right now, disconnected from the violent realities bombarding us in the news. Bethlehem is, after all, just a few miles from a battlefield.
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