New on St. Paul's YouTube channel: Video of a worship
service in Mwitikira, Tanzania. Through the Carpenter's Kids, St.
Paul's and the Diocese of Central Tanzania partner to support the
education and health of 136 kids
who lost their parents to HIV/AIDS.
And, of course, this Christmas, tonight, and tomorrow, new memories are being made; a Carol sung, pure and exquisite; an old friend; warm, endearing words exchanged; a first Christmas for a new grandbaby; a candle lit, a face aglow, eyes agleam.
More than fifty times, in his published writings, Barth refers to the Grunewald image; and, indeed, usually, it is precisely in reference to John, and John’s relation to the figure of Christ; as he points.
Barth (and Grunewald before him) understood John’s sole purpose to be to serve as a pointer to Christ, a reference to Christ, a witness to Christ.