Donald Trump or merry Christmas? Which would you prefer to write an editorial about?

So picture the scene: a baby in a wooden cradle. Moodily lit, joyful parents. Reverent visitors, with gifts ranging from the fluffy to the glittering. Angels, even, glimpsed in the corners.

I’m hardly the first person to notice this, but the Gospel of Matthew doesn’t half throw a gory spanner into this warmest of scenes. A genocide. The execution of toddlers. A family displaced. A government that will do absolutely anything necessary to eliminate threats to its power….

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This is an extract from an article published in the December 2024/January 2025 edition of Reform

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