The heroes of this little narrative certainly seem familiar to us. Each year we all receive at least one Christmas card with their picture on the cover. Every card depicts them exactly the same way: long flowing robes, beards, and big turbans. They are always in one of two poses: either kneeling at Jesus' crib or sojourning across the desert on camels. In our carefully carved nativity sets, they rub elbows with the shepherds from Luke. We don't really know them very well, though. Most of us have probably heard by now that what we think we know about them is not accurate. They weren't kings; there weren't necessarily three of them; they didn't come on the night of Jesus' birth. After the service, someone will come up and tell me that "We Three Kings" is a favorite hymn and I just ruined it!…