As a teacher of 3rd graders (which I’m not, so this is hypothetical), I wonder how I could supplement this from, say, Islam, Buddhism, writings by atheists.
Things like “care for the stranger among you,” and bits about false prophecy, remembering one’s worth, ….
Really, opportunity abounds. If you want me to teach morality, I *will*.
I just bet there’s a curriculum, if only potential.
New Interpreter’s Study Bible notes: «“Guest room” should be read instead of the NRSV’s inn. Luke’s reference is to a peasant house in which family and animals slept on different levels in the same enclosed space—in this case, to a home of family or friends that was so overcrowded that the baby would have been placed in a feeding trough.»
Honestly, so many glorious opportunities for deconstruction and actual history here. Field trip to a farm!
