Luke Chapter 1 packs quite a bit of interesting and unique stories into less than 100 verses and sets the tone for the rest of this Gospel. Luke states his intentions for these writings in the first four verses. He desires to make his theological point through his well-grasped understanding of the events that have happened to Theophilus in a well-ordered account. The stories in this first chapter are unique to Luke and do not appear in the other three Gospels.
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Luke 2, at its core, is a narrative about God’s breaking into the human story, prioritizing the least, last, and most marginalized, and revealing God's self to be on the side of the oppressed and in opposition to the sin of systems that elevate some and diminish others. As we queer this pericope, we experience the birth of Jesus, who was born and laid in a manger, because there was no room for him in the inn. How often do our queer siblings feel that there is no room for them in the spaces that they should expect to inhabit?
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