Why Did God Choose Mary?
Curiously Kaitlyn
Phil Vischer
4.9 • 865 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Why would God choose such a young woman to be the mother of Jesus? Kaitlyn Schiess reflects on Mary's age, vulnerability, and social position, and why those details matter so much in the Advent story. Drawing from Luke 1, they explore how God consistently works through surprising people, why Mary's response is so different from Zechariah's, and what this teaches us about faith, doubt, and trust. Mary shows us that faithful waiting isn't about doubting whether God can do this, but about asking how we are meant to participate.
0:00 - Theme Song
1:42 - Why Did God Choose Someone So Young?
6:33 - Cultural Marriage Norms
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13:36 - Mary Compared to Zachariah
21:42 - When is Doubt Good?
29:37 - End Credits
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Curiously, Caitlin, where we try to make theology make sense. |
| 0:06.6 | I don't know. |
| 0:10.1 | That doesn't make any sense. |
| 0:14.3 | Curiously, Kate, yeah. |
| 0:19.7 | Welcome back to Curiously, Caitlin. I am here once again with producer Mike. Mike, how are you? |
| 0:24.6 | I'm great. Caitlin, how are you enjoying your Advent season? |
| 0:28.0 | I'm having the most Christmassy day today. I'm so excited. People watching online, I'm wearing a red sweater. |
| 0:34.2 | I have already had a Christmas coffee this morning. And then this afternoon, I am making Christmas cookies and mixing essential oils in Christmas, |
| 0:44.3 | not for weird, health, crunchy things, for like smell things. |
| 0:48.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:49.3 | And then I'm going to look at Christmas lights tonight. |
| 0:51.3 | Christmas lights tonight. |
| 0:52.3 | It's like a Christmas day. |
| 0:53.3 | I mean, clearly the Christmas lights will be the most exciting thing about your evening. |
| 0:57.0 | Absolutely. |
| 0:57.4 | That's going to be great. |
| 0:58.8 | Are you celebrating Christmas appropriately or Advent appropriately? |
| 1:02.5 | Well, I thought I wasn't supposed to be celebrating Christmas. |
| 1:04.9 | I am of a mixed mind about that. |
| 1:07.5 | This whole season, Caitlin. |
| 1:09.0 | I think we should enjoy the Christmas stuff and also have intentional moments of waiting and hoping and lamenting. |
| 1:17.6 | Okay. |
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