Must the divine feminine be denatured?
She
by Sallie Bingham in Writing 3 Comments
She
The Virgin Goes Into Labor
Oh the ghosts of Christmas past! We all have them. May yours wear holly wreaths and drag chains of tinkling bells if they have to drag chains at all.
Revising Ikons
The image of Mary as “Virgin Mary, Meek and Mild” has been a problem for many women and probably some men during the 100 years when this became her most common representation.
Resisting the Annunciation
As we head, again, into the season of attacks on reproductive rights… I wonder how many of them stem, unconsciously, from the familiar version of the Annunciation.
The Queen
Women have always thronged to churches, finding solace in this image of holy suffering. Is it possible that someday we will throng to the images of the Queen?
The Three Goddesses in One by Paz Winshtein
The image of the Virgin of Guadalupe is especially prized here because of her Mexican antecedents, and yet, even though she represents a beleaguered minority, she must still be seen only in the terms set by the church, terms that have constricted the image, and confused women followers, for hundreds of years.