In the summer of 2001, I. P. Asheervadam, a young historian and rising church leader in the Conference of Mennonite Brethren in India, came to Goshen (Ind.) College to do research for a history of Mennonites in the subcontinent of India …

The infant lying in the manger is God’s body. That’s what “Emmanuel” means. The Hebrew word is, literally, “God with us” …