National Security: Bethlehem

The coming weekend marks the start of our Christmas celebration. Sunday is Christmas Eve, and churches all over our community will gather to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ twenty centuries ago in Bethlehem. They will read the Christmas story as told through the Gospel of Saint Luke in the second chapter. Luke learned this story from Saint Paul, for whom he served as a scribe, and dutifully recorded it in the third gospel. It is a magical story. Two thousand years ago, western civilizatio