Sacred text does not tell us the "truth" about Mary and Joseph, but it's where we have one of our best opportunities to meet them. Ancient Scripture is a wild and wooly place where the Spirit speaks in unexpected ways across generations. Therefore reading the Bible is not for the faint of heart, no matter your religious background.

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This sacred text study fosters self-understanding through the lenses of land, family systems, and history, by working through Mary’s ethnobiography as a young Jewish peasant in the gospel of Luke. Rather than a traditional Bible study, it is a Mary study: What do you see in Mary and Joseph’s story, and why?

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Because this class focuses on spiritual AUTO-biography, through the lens of personal sovereignty and fruitfulness represented by Mary’s pregnant virginity (not to mention her non-normative relationship with God and the Holy Spirit), it is not a couples’ class. 

 

The study of Mary will ultimately take us to Jesus, a revolutionary leader and executed criminal. Take some time to build a deeper political framework around your personhood and the personhood of the ones you bring into the world. Because life is still being birthed, nurtured, crucified, and resurrected every day, everywhere.

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