3 Things A Lot of People Don’t Know About the Christmas Story
A familiar tale with some new contours.
8 min readDec 20, 2021
We all generally know the Christmas story. The Gospels of Luke and Matthew give us the familiar version: Many years ago in Judea, everyone is commanded to return to their hometown for a census, meaning Joseph has to return to Bethlehem with his fiancée, Mary. The Virgin Mary gives birth in a…