We often read, “Keep the ‘Christ’ in Christmas.” Why not keep his mother in there too? At the heart of an overwhelmingly patriarchal religion, one finds the central figure in the Biblical Christmas story to be … a woman, Mary! Also called “the Madonna,” Mary was blessed among women, and many holiday texts discuss her...

We often read, “Keep the ‘Christ’ in Christmas.” Why not keep his mother in there too? At the heart of an overwhelmingly patriarchal religion, one finds the central figure in the Biblical Christmas story to be … a woman, Mary! Also called “the Madonna,” Mary was blessed among women, and many holiday texts discuss her...

We often read, “Keep the ‘Christ’ in Christmas.” Why not keep his mother in there too? At the heart of an overwhelmingly patriarchal religion, one finds the central figure in the Biblical Christmas story to be … a woman, Mary! Also called “the Madonna,” Mary was blessed among women, and many holiday texts discuss her...