Jesus wasn’t born in a stable. He was born in the living room, where the animals feed, because there was no room in the guest room (not the ‘inn’). But that isn’t the point. Luke, in his Gospel, isn’t interested in the fact that Jesus wasn’t born in a stable. Now, in our our day, we might need to spend a bit of time deconstructing some interpretations that have developed around the mistaken idea that Jesus was born in the stable. But if we devote too much attention to that task of...
