By Cara Sulieman
THE CHURCH of Scotland is calling on people to give the Bethlehem innkeeper a chance and to stop the “bad press” he has been getting for the past 2,000 years.
The Kirk said that he has been unfairly blamed for refusing Mary and Joseph a room when his inn was fully booked – and that he did his best by letting them stay in the stable.
Rev James Martin defended the hotelier in this month’s Life and Work magazine – asking for him to be given a “second chance”.
And he has the support of more senior members of the church, who are asking parishioners to spare a thought for the overlooked player in the nativity.
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