Luke appears to be the most feminist of the gospel writers, if the opening pages of his gospel are anything to go by, compared to the others. Interestingly, Joseph gets paid no attention by Luke, unless the detail is needed to identify Mary more so, or tell the reader where she went. Luke is totally …
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Having made it almost halfway through the Advent blogging, I feel I'm at liberty to now include a post about for King and Country (my second most played artist on Spotify this year). I just bought tickets to their global livestream concert, so that did it for me. Here's a recent preview video from their …
Musically, I quite like the song Mary, Did you Know? But I think there's a few things about it that irritate me. The main thing being that it seems to deny the reality of prophecy. And, when I look at Mary's song in the opening of Luke, I see that she is aware of a …
Having hit the weekend, I have no more brain power to write anything even remotely meaningful. So here's a song for some reflection in a future post. Gabriel's message is credited to Edgar Pettman and Sabine Baring-Gould. I like Sting's recording of the track, especially this performance from the 1980s. The lyrics are below. Enjoy. …