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In the Bible, angels can be deadly. So why do we place them at the top of our Christmas trees?

  • Written by Robyn J. Whitaker, Associate Professor, New Testament & Director of the Wesley Centre, University of Divinity
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Those beautiful white and gold angels you see on Christmas trees were originally monsters. At least, that is the claim made by scholar Esther Hamori in her book God’s Monsters. Hamori writes that angels “have acquired the soft-edged glow of a Hallmark card, but are some of the deadliest shapeshifters in a universe teeming...

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