Christ was not born in the clean, sterile rooms of a local hospital. He was not born in the southeastern part of the United States. He was not Caucasian. He was not American.

His humble family was not known outside the city of Nazareth. We know very little about Joseph except that he was a carpenter, a just and honorable man of the house and lineage of David. We know very little of his mother, Mary. We do know that she probably belonged to the anawiem, the poor ones of Palestine, and we know that she was a very unlikely person to be the mother of Christ.

Hebrew was Christ's language for the acquisition of knowledge. Aramaic was his mode of everyday speech. English was unknown to him. Never did he travel more than a few miles from his home town. He knew absolutely nothing about modern med…