Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“When I think about biblical stories, I sometimes have to remind myself — and try to emphasize in my writing — that we are expected to believe that these are stories about real people, who, when they are not appearing as characters in Scripture, have the usual problems real people have …. for every wise man who came journeying from the east, there probably was a wife or a boss or a brother-in-law back home who suspected that he was not so wise, after all, that he was off on some damned fool’s errand with his wise-guy friends, taking a long and no doubt expensive trip to some faraway land in order to observe — and financially support — events of no obvious immediate consequence to him or his family or his people or his community.” (12/25/24)
https://thedispatch.com/article/magi-bethlehem-another-path-christmas/