From The Church Times-
CHRISTIANS are using the social-media site Twitter to re-tell the Christmas story in novel ways this year.
In Germany, a Twitter-user called Joseph von Nazareth is journalling the nativity story from the perspective of Joseph. Describing himself as a “35-year-old third-generation carpenter from Nazareth”, he regularly updates the site with short descriptions from the Christmas story.
This week he started recounting the journey of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem. In one of his 140-character tweets, he wrote: “Please note: my carpenter’s workshop is closed till January 1 because of census, we’re on company outing. Thanks for your understanding.”
The Bishop of Bradford, the Rt Revd Nick Baines, this week announced the winners of his Christmas Twitter competition, in which he asked people to describe the meaning of Christmas in one tweet.
Bishop Baines said that he was impressed with the standard of entries, and that the winners had “all managed to articulate something of the enduring significance of Christmas”.
His own tweet read: “Christmas is about God opting into the world in all its messiness and not exempting himself from it — showing he is on our side, one of us.”
More here-
http://churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=121998
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