Joshua Blackmon

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Regrettably, in their efforts to honor Jesus’ mother, the early Christians usually left the Scriptural Mary behind or outright ignored her. In Luke’s Annunciation account, Mary refers to herself as a “handmaiden” or “slave girl” in Greek, that is, she identifies with women on literally the lowest rung of society, pieces of property who were routinely abused. By the second century, some Christians, spurning the Bible, began to raise Mary’s social status—recall the passage in the
The Origins of Christmas
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