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31.5: Lent

Like an Unnamed Woman

Jo-Ann Badley
April 19, 2019 / Praxis

Jo-Ann Badley follows Mary through John’s Gospel, grieving and rejoicing in the hour of her Son.

29.5: Advent

Fourteen Lines for Mary

Sarah Neff
December 22, 2017 / Creative Writing

In this poem, Sarah Neff imagines Mary consoling Eve.

29.5: Advent

There Will Be Pain in Childbearing

Sharon Hodde Miller
December 21, 2017 / Praxis

Sharon Hodde Miller reflects on the witness of pregnancy in seasons of waiting.

29.5: Advent

The Songs of Mary and Paul

Jo-Ann Badley
December 21, 2017 / Praxis

Jo-Ann Badley writes about how even Mary, pregnant with God by the Holy Spirit, still needs a man to get the recognition she deserves from Protestants.

29.5: Advent

How God Becomes Human

Chris E. W. Green
December 20, 2017 / Praxis

Chris E. W. Green offers an advent meditation on what it means for God to come into the world through our labors.

29.5: Advent

The Confidence of Women: Luke 1:39–56

Meghan Larissa Good
December 19, 2017 / Praxis

Meghan Larissa Good shows that when God has a secret, God talks to women.

29.5: Advent

God Right Under the Ribs

Jason Byassee
December 7, 2017 / Praxis

Jason Byassee describes Mary as a sign that God is scandalously enfleshed.

21: Prayer

On The (Gritty) Birth of Christ

Hollis Phelps
December 26, 2012 / Praxis

This essay argues against sentimentalized images of the nativity for a more realistic rendering of the birth of Jesus.

19.5: The Advent Issue

Measured Hope: A Meditation on the Third Week of Advent

Tom Ryan
December 21, 2011 / Praxis

In this Advent reflection, Tom Ryan wonders whether we really want what Advent prepares us for.