I've read these text and I don't see it. Not that I'm opposed, as an idea it seems sensible, not unholy, certainly not contradicted by the texts, but I just can't find that extra thing, anything extra, that would confirm as a yes. Rumor says she was sort of a rich kid, a billionaire, and a sort of rock star, like Madonna, but had a good heart and gave it up for something more essential and profound. These can't be proven, but explains why they took the dreadful "prostitute" line in the Middle Ages. Joseph of Arimthea was also a billionaire and as Nero came on, fled to England. Why? Some of his fortune was from tin mines there. Jesus knew many, being a celebrity there.
Perhaps for fun, you could look on Anne Emmerich who had startling visions of things she couldn't possibly know in 1820 Germany, certain things about weaving, basketry, rooms, and for example in the Garden of Eden, with one tree being as big as a barn, with a forest of trunks which is a fig, something nobody even now knows, as a Banyan. For example.
Somewhere in the Vatican, a smoke alarm just went off and nobody’s even lit a candle.
This is the gospel that got buried because it couldn't be controlled. Tender, embodied, ecstatic, equal—no wonder the empire panicked.
Thank you for resurrecting what puritans tried to crucify: not just Mary’s voice, but her pleasure, her power, and her place beside the Christ—not beneath him.
I've read these text and I don't see it. Not that I'm opposed, as an idea it seems sensible, not unholy, certainly not contradicted by the texts, but I just can't find that extra thing, anything extra, that would confirm as a yes. Rumor says she was sort of a rich kid, a billionaire, and a sort of rock star, like Madonna, but had a good heart and gave it up for something more essential and profound. These can't be proven, but explains why they took the dreadful "prostitute" line in the Middle Ages. Joseph of Arimthea was also a billionaire and as Nero came on, fled to England. Why? Some of his fortune was from tin mines there. Jesus knew many, being a celebrity there.
Perhaps for fun, you could look on Anne Emmerich who had startling visions of things she couldn't possibly know in 1820 Germany, certain things about weaving, basketry, rooms, and for example in the Garden of Eden, with one tree being as big as a barn, with a forest of trunks which is a fig, something nobody even now knows, as a Banyan. For example.
Somewhere in the Vatican, a smoke alarm just went off and nobody’s even lit a candle.
This is the gospel that got buried because it couldn't be controlled. Tender, embodied, ecstatic, equal—no wonder the empire panicked.
Thank you for resurrecting what puritans tried to crucify: not just Mary’s voice, but her pleasure, her power, and her place beside the Christ—not beneath him.
Bless this holy scandal.
Virgin Monk Boy
The thought of resurrecting Mary's pleasure and power is giving me chills. Thank you for that framework and for your beautiful, poetic words!