Recently we read a book in the refectory called How the West really lost God. The author was Mary Eberstadt, an American academic, essayist, novelist, and Social Scientist. She has gained some notoriety in recent times as an orthodox Catholic…
‘In those days a decree went out from the Emperor Augustus, that a census be taken of all the world. This census, the first, took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own city. And Joseph also...