OK it's time. This is my favorite Christmas song and I love this version of it. Listen to the lyrics and you will discover that it is an abolitionist song. The Christian abolitionists in the British Empire looked forward to the day when Christ would break the chains of our brothers and sisters held in cruel bondage by an evil economic system. But in a larger sense, we are all slaves - slaves to our pettiness and our greed, slaves to our selfishness and to our fears. Christ came to break those chains too. If you don't know him, I hope you will find him. And if you do, I hope you will share his love. Merry Christmas. Shalom.
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