With Christmas quickly approaching, the familiar tunes of a baby sleeping away in a manger on a silent night while angels we have heard on high proclaim joy to the world in the little town of Bethlehem echo all around us. I like many of these songs. Many of them capture a part of the story of the Creator of the universe becoming an infant and coming to be with us. But the very first Christmas song was quite different from the ones that resound in our churches and department stores this year. The first Christmas song ever recorded in history was a revolutionary and subversive song sung by a pregnant, unwed teenager named Mary not long after she received a message that the Son of God was in her womb. Mary's song has made people in power so uncomfortable that it has been banned in multiple countries over the past 100 years because of its message of revolutionary reversals. Our Christmas songs about a cute baby often fail to capture what Mary expresses in the first Christmas song ev...