Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Debie Thomas. Essay by Debie Thomas: *Gaudete* for Sunday, 13 December 2015; book review by Dan Clendenin: *The Paradox of Liberation; Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions* by Michael Walzer (2015); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Beats of the Antonov* (2014, Sudan); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *On the Mystery of the Incarnation* by Denise Levertov.