Kathleen Klompien-Wedberg talks about the toxic positivity and consumerism of the typical American Christmas, and how it leads us to feel tired and jaded. This week’s scripture (Zephaniah 3: 14-20; Philippians 4:4-7; Luke 3: 7-14), even the unlikely hero, John the Baptist calls us back to what we ought to talk about who is left out of the typical Christmas—the othered, the neurodivergent, the unhoused, those whose path has not been in a typically straight line—and how God is rejoicing and singing over all humankind.

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Images by Kelly Latimore and Elżbieta Podleśna below, are referenced by Kathleen toward the end of the sermon.