A Different Take on the Christmas Story | Dec 9th, 2009 One of the e-newsletters I sub­scribe to is from a dear brother named Scott Web­ster. Recently he had an inter­est­ing take on the “Chrsit­mas Story” that I felt was worth men­tion­ing. Fol­low­ing are some selected quotes with a link to the entire article. “The events of Jesus birth and early years of life were couched within polit­i­cal intrigue, mur­der­ous plots, acts of geno­ci­dal rage, state intel­li­gence activ­i­ties, issues of immi­gra­tion and covert bor­der cross­ings, a vis­it­ing del­e­ga­tion of for­eign dig­ni­taries and the cen­sus and tax decrees of an empire. We must be aware of the actual intro­duc­tion of the King into the earth...