Quick Summary:

We know the story inside and out, for we've heard it year after year for as long as we can remember. The characters are so familiar, they feel like members of our own family. It’s a deeply personal story Luke tells us, but it’s set against the coarse canvas of EMPIRE. “All the old history," writes Walter Brueggemann, "is by decree,” and in that realm authority is exercised by fear. It’s the way things are in the dominant version of history.

But Luke doesn’t leave us there. Beneath the surface of the Empire’s dominant version of reality, Luke says, there is another version—unrehearsed, surprising, bold—a SUB-VERSION—that tells a different story.