Christmas & Epiphany

Subversiveness of the Incarnation

In this edition of the Daily Prayer Project, we celebrate this subversion and aim to center the voices of others like my sister in Suki who live with their backs against the wall,not because we want to pretend as though poverty means holiness, but because in the poor, we see and access Jesus. In his seminal work, Jesus and the Disinherited, Howard Thurman writes, “The masses of the people are poor. If we dare take the position that in Jesus there was at work some radical destiny, it would be safe to say that in his poverty he was more truly Son of man.” Thousands of years before him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me” (Matt. 25:40). In these curated elements, we aim to listen to these brothers and sisters, believing that as we learn from them, we learn from Jesus.