Joseph: Harvey Gillman’s original father Christmas

‘I will always be the old man at the back, a small player in the grandiose drama.’

by Harvey Gillman 18th December 2020

‘I sit here in amazement of what they will say of me. None of them knew me, except that I was his father. What they mean by father I do not understand. They will write that Mary was overshadowed by the Holy Spirit, that she bore a child, that an angel told me to marry her in spite of that. And I, in the goodness of my heart, being a “principled man”, will obey. Then, having taken away my paternity, they will call me saint. They will make me “rotector of the church”/ What is a church?