.......And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the City of Nazareth, into Judea, unto the City of David which is called Bethlehem, for he was of the house and lineage of David.......
From the line of Kings, to the City of Kings.
This "thing" masquerading as a Presiding Bishop is a pathetic, self-centered reprobate.
I know for a fact that liberal protestants (including those in TEC/ECUSA and the ELCA), and especially pastors and pseudo-bishops, have a sort of "poverty chic". This fits right into that ideology!!!
"Poverty chic" distorts liberal protestant leaders' relationships with actual poor people, as well as to the vast majority of their flocks, who are or who are deemed to be non-poor.
It also distorts their reading and interpretation of the Holy Scriptures. The social class of Jesus and the Apostles is not completely clear from the biblical record, and may have been higher than the "poverty chic" advocates believe. For example, there is evidence that Peter owned several boats, and he and perhaps Jesus were homeowners. There is also evidence that both Jesus and Peter were trilingual (Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek).
Archeology reveals that Nazareth was not an isolated village, but a suburb of the Greco-Roman city of Sephoris. Carpenters of Nazareth in Joseph's day may well have been engaged in building Sephoris. They thus were no peasants, and needed to know at least a bit of Greek.
As for the Holy Family being refugees, that happened AFTER the visit of the Magi, when they had to flee to Egypt. Before that, they were neither homeless nor refugees. They were, however, members of a subject people whom the Romans pushed around, for example making them crowd into Bethlehem for the tax census.