... small packages. Bethlehem has been a center of action throughout history, attesting to the fact that bigger is not necessarily better. It is here in Bethlehem that Rachel gives birth to Benjamin, the last of Jacob's twelve sons. Later, Naomi, her husband, and their two strong sons leave a famine-stricken Bethlehem to seek ... Bishop: Dispatch from Birmingham," The Christian Century, Vol. 122, No. 19, September 20, 2005, p. 28. 3. Leonard Griffith, What Is a Christian? (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1962), p. 21.