Happy Christmas! Given the Reason for the Season, I’ve been thinking a lot about Mary, and trust, and bodies. This is the first year I’ve conceptualized Advent as something other than carefully rationed chocolate, and somehow also the first year that I’ve thought about Mary as a person that was pregnant. I’ve always felt that we don’t get very much of her inner life in the Bible—there’s the annunciation, and the Magnificat (which wasn’t really part of my tradition as an evangelical-charismatic-church-in-a-cafetorium kind of Protestant), and then Mary meditates on these signs in her heart (she’s the first contemplative in the Christian tradition), and then snapshots of her as Jesus grows up. But I’ve also never really thought of her as someone with a body: This was the first year that I realized that Mary was someone who literally gave birth.
#2: Mary and the Body
#2: Mary and the Body
#2: Mary and the Body
Happy Christmas! Given the Reason for the Season, I’ve been thinking a lot about Mary, and trust, and bodies. This is the first year I’ve conceptualized Advent as something other than carefully rationed chocolate, and somehow also the first year that I’ve thought about Mary as a person that was pregnant. I’ve always felt that we don’t get very much of her inner life in the Bible—there’s the annunciation, and the Magnificat (which wasn’t really part of my tradition as an evangelical-charismatic-church-in-a-cafetorium kind of Protestant), and then Mary meditates on these signs in her heart (she’s the first contemplative in the Christian tradition), and then snapshots of her as Jesus grows up. But I’ve also never really thought of her as someone with a body: This was the first year that I realized that Mary was someone who literally gave birth.