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Joseph is that quiet figure named in the Christmas story as the husband of Mary and the stepfather of Jesus, but what is really known about him?

Many families make a trek, sometimes several times annually, to celebrate the holidays together. Here’s some advice for how to pull off a holiday away from home with grace — and only a few frazzled nerves.

Sometimes we can get caught up in the “doing” of Advent, even with best intentions, forgetting the truth that no practice we take on can come close to the power of God at work in our lives.

’Tis the season to spend money. What we lack in time, we try to make up for in money, throwing it at people and problems who actually need minutes and hours.

There can be no finished symphony in this life – not because our souls are defective, are defective, but because they carry godliness.

It might feel like there has been a seismic shift in church teaching concerning transgenderism in recent weeks; it’s because so many headlines got the story wrong.

Baking Christmas cookies is a reminder of what it means to be a Christian: to live always with a sense of longing, of that joyful expectation tinged with sorrow that comes from knowing that the greatest desire of our heart will never be fulfilled in this earthly life.

Those who seem to oppose immigration cite the rule of law whereby illegal migration, by definition, is presumed to be harmful. On the other hand, we see a labor market, especially in the agricultural and other sectors, that rely heavily on undocumented migration.