Of Barbarians, Philosophers, and a Cave of Dreams

The God-breathed world we inhabit is a magical place, charged with enigmatic beauty. Behold the cave in ancient Judea-a cave found by shepherds, fresh from the hilltop and smelling of mud and grass—a cave which, for a short time, was home to the world's great. est secret. The incarnation, Chesterton suggests, was the realization of a dream-the dream of a purpose beyond the stars, of gods and…