it seemed good also to me to write an orderly account for you … so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught (Luke 1:3-4)

There’s a great need to recover Christmas as an historical fact, too often it seems to have become little more than a beautiful fable, a children’s story for the winter festival, even among Christians. Luke’s account, beginning with his historical manifesto in its opening words, serves as a perfect balance to those tendencies.