A
few years ago the Planned Parenthood Federation of America got my
attention by pioneering a Christmas card. The group sent a holiday
greeting — complete with sentimental snowflakes and stars — with the
caption “Choice on Earth.”
Evangelicals and Roman Catholics rightly noted the incongruity of the
nation’s largest abortion provider using an ancient Christian holiday
to promote abortion rights. The give-and-take over this card was a quick
controversy, forgotten once all the wrapping paper and tinsel were put
away for the season.
But the card made me think of Joseph, and how this obscure Middle
Eastern laborer could show 21st-century Christians how to celebrate
Christmas in a culture of death?
For too long, Christians have concentrated almost exclusively on what we do not believe about Joseph.
We rightly insist that he was not the birth-father of Jesus. Mary, a
virgin, conceived the Messiah through the power of the Holy Spirit, with
no biological contribution from a man (Luke 1:34-35). And yet, there is
so much more that Scripture has to say about Joseph. Continue at Russell D. Moore
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