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It all began simply enough:  Boy meets girl… girl and boy become engaged.  Mary was betrothed to Joseph:  betrothal is a covenantal arrangement in which a couple are promised to one another in marriage.  As customary in first century Palestine, once the betrothal was settled, Mary left her family and moved into the home ofContinue reading “From the Margin to the Center (a meditative midrash on the nativity stories in the gospels of Matt and Luke)”