Must the divine feminine be denatured?
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by Sallie Bingham in Writing 3 Comments
by Sallie Bingham in Writing 3 Comments
by Sallie Bingham in Writing 2 Comments
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.
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by Sallie Bingham in Women, Religion 3 Comments
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.
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by Sallie Bingham in Religion, Politics, Women 1 Comment
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.
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by Sallie Bingham in Women, New Mexico, Art, Religion 6 Comments
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?
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by Sallie Bingham in New Mexico, Art, Women 2 Comments
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.
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