WHEN THINKING OF CHRISTMAS, DON’T FORGET SIMEON’S SWORD

For the discussion material for our small group meeting at our house, I chose five Christmas poems by poets ranging from Shakespeare contemporary Ben Jonson to C.S. Lewis, along with the passages from Matthew and Luke that give the poems their context.
What struck us all was the range of responses to the Christmas story even among poets who wished to honor it. Which led us to see that the Bible itself has more than one understanding—not contradictory, but drastically different in tone and implication.
How do Christians today think of this ...