birth

Claire K. McKeever-Burgett reimagines the traditional Christmas Eve liturgy from Mary’s perspective.

Christina Lee Barnes contemplates an unconventional kind of motherhood.

Cabe Matthews suggests that the Christmas story is not about placid babies in the hay but about slaying a dragon.

Todd Copeland reflects on darkness.

In this poem, Barbara Crooker reflects on the Cathars.

In the beginning, God gave birth, and it was really hard.

Brigid Andrews writes about the trauma of birthing and postpartum depression.

My mother idolized the pampas grass and my father idolized the peppers that fell when I was born.

The fertility gap between the religious and nonreligious will be a primary factor in the reversal of Western secularization, argues Joshua Ramos.