The Scandal of Particularity

What the maps in the back of your Bible can’t convey, what the Jesus movies sure as s#$% don’t make clear, is that the bulk of his ministry takes place in a space smaller than a gated community

In her book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard observes, “That Christ’s incarnation occurred improbably, ridiculously, at such-and-such a time, into such-and-such a place, is referred to—with great sincerity even among believers—as “the scan…