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People often ask me how I get anything out of the Christmas story anymore since I am a progressive Christian who doesn't take the Bible literally. They assume that just because I no longer believe that things happened exactly as they are portrayed in Scripture, that just because I don't believe in a literal virgin birth, for instance, there is no truth or message or meaning or power I can experience from the stories.

But of course they are wrong - in fact, by removing the burden of lite...