By looking at Joseph’s silence, we are invited into a very different way to think about moral agency: ordinary faithfulness, the call of God, and the point of it all, our lives being conformed to Christ’s life.

Referred to in the audio:

Matthew 1:18-25

Travis Pickell, Burdened Agency and End of Life Ethics

Lisa Tessman, Burdened Virtues

W.H. Auden, For the Time Being, “Temptation of St. Joseph”

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