There was no Room for Them
We've all heard the Christmas story hundreds of times. We've read it, listened to it, heard Linus recite it from memory to bring Charlie Brown out of his seasonal existentialism, and seen too many dramatizations of it to count. Because of this, I've always had a pretty solid picture of what the Christmas story was like in my head. In my mind, it starts with Mary being ready to give birth right about the time that they arrive in Bethlehem. All the local Bethlehem Inns are filled up, so they're forced to improvise and give birth in a nearby stable. This is probably how most of us see the start of what we know as the Christmas story. I've come to find, however, that this story is only one possibility of what could've actually happened. My Religion professor pointed a few things out to me this week that helped me gain a greater appreciation for the mortal parents of our Savior. It's also taught me something important about our membership in His churc...