LONDON (ENGLAND)
The Guardian
December 24, 2017
By Brad Chilcott
For both people of faith and no faith the Christmas story is an opportunity to reflect: Will we keep power and privilege to ourselves or offer the gift of solidarity?
The newborn lying in a feeding trough and soon to be threatened with death by an occupying power, commemorated in sanitised nativity scenes in shopping malls and front yard light displays is the child born in Palestine for whom fear of violence is the daily norm.
He is the Rohingya Muslim watching his village burn.
The child of Mary is the survivor exposing their abuse before a royal commission.
The son of God is the woman unable to escape domestic violence, the bullied transgender student contemplating suicide and the Aboriginal child in a spit hood.
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