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...four angelic dreams; he marries her and gets her to Bethlehem; spirits mother and child off to Egypt when they are threatened by the murderous King Herod; then settles them in Nazareth. Yet there are strange omissions and truncations. Joseph is not described as present at Jesus' birth or the reception of the shepherds. The Egyptian trip is not actually recounted. The last reference to Joseph as a living person--a single sentence--occurs when Jesus is 12, shortly after Christ has made a rather cutting distinction between his parents on earth and his real "Father." Joseph's death goes...
...fully than Scripture. It also tells how the dismayed High Priest later puts them both through a trial by ordeal (they must drink a potentially lethal "water of conviction") before he accepts that the pregnant Mary is still a virgin. A bright light obscures Joseph's view of the birth, but the Protevangelium has already assigned him a beautiful epiphany, beginning, "I ... was walking, and I walked not. And I looked up to the air and saw the air in amazement. And I looked up unto the pole of the heaven and saw it standing still, and the fowls...
...good-hair tradition. The pair will attempt to stanch the migration of network-news viewers to cable and the Internet and reclaim some of the eyeballs lost to NBC's Brian Williams since Jennings left in April. If that doesn't work, there's always a panda somewhere giving birth...
...Others worry that the fight may be more damaging than any impact from what they're fighting about. ""The central point is not what hour of what day the congregation gathers corporately to celebrate the birth of Christ," says Willow Creek's Hybels, "but rather that in our hearts and lives we allow the coming of Christ to transform us." On his blog, Louie Marsh, pastor of a small church in rural Arizona, quoted the Apostle Paul from the Book of Romans, who wrote, "Who are you to judge someone else's servant?" "I do know [that] this...
Summers also objected to the DoC’s proposal that license applications consider country of birth, as well as citizenship and permanent residence—a measure that, according to the DoC’s summary of the proposal, was intended to prevent researchers from hiding their political loyalties behind a new citizenship. Summers called this requirement “neither reasonable nor permissible” and said that Harvard does not collect this information because of federal laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of national origin...