Star Baby and Straw Blasphemy: The Complex Simplicity of the First Christian Story

Dec 23rd 2025 6:28pm EST

Varsk’vlavi. That’s a strange word from a strange language. At least, it’s a strange word if your mother-tongue is English and not Georgian, the mother-tongue of Joseph Stalin. As a boy, Stalin himself would have found the word right at the beginning of the New Testament in the Gospel of Matthew: 2:9 და აჰა, ვარსკვლავი, […]

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