Holy Family – Drew Downs

God’s deal with Joseph

•

7 min read

The Holy Family is our family. And God shows us that we are part of a project that thrives on making room for the new.

•

2 min read

The gospel for Advent 4A gives us Joseph’s angelic encounter while deciding about Mary when most of us are thinking Christmas.

•

3 min read

We often read the challenge Joseph faces as doing the “right” thing. What the angel invites them all into is something new.

•

1 min read

The question offered by the angel encounters that surround Jesus’s birth is not what we would do, but what we do.

•

6 min read

Luke sets us up to see the birth of Jesus as more than the uncommon birth of the Son of God. It is a common flashpoint for love.

•

9 min read

Just because the lectionary has us reading the beginning of Matthew in the wrong order doesn’t mean we shouldn’t get it straight.