Homeless, lonely, and hungry

Thursday Dec. 22, 2022

Occasionally, around this time of year, a TV station will send its cameras into an encampment of homeless people for the obligatory human-interest story. But I notice that the cameras stay outside the tents and makeshift shelters. Perhaps to respect their subjects’ privacy. Or perhaps those subjects won’t let the cameras any closer.

And I wonder how today’s news media would treat the most famous homeless couple of all -- Mary and Joseph.

We’ve all heard the story told in the gospel attributed to someone called Luke. About how Mary and Joseph travelled from their home village of Nazareth. To Bethlehem. To be formally registered in the city of their legendary ancestor, King David.

But have you really listened to that story?

When you read that “there was no room for them in the inn,” do you hear those two little words “for them”?

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