Mary Archives » Mike Frost https://mikefrost.net/tag/mary/ AUTHOR | SPEAKER | MISSIOLOGIST | AGITATOR Thu, 15 Dec 2022 11:08:12 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://i0.wp.com/mikefrost.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cropped-MF.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Mary Archives » Mike Frost https://mikefrost.net/tag/mary/ 32 32 116298986 The Most Tender of all Advent Paintings https://mikefrost.net/the-most-tender-of-all-advent-paintings/ https://mikefrost.net/the-most-tender-of-all-advent-paintings/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2022 10:54:23 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=32241 Whenever I see Arthur Hacker’s 1892 painting, The Annunciation, I feel like I’m intruding on an intimate conversation. It’s a beautiful picture, private and evocative. The Virgin Mary is swathed in layers of soft, floating, light fabric, which has the effect of lending her multiple identities. She is a classical Greek statue, a priestess, and […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/the-most-tender-of-all-advent-paintings/feed/ 6 32241 Praying the Prayers of the Nativity: a daily rhythm https://mikefrost.net/praying-the-prayers-of-the-nativity-a-daily-rhythm/ https://mikefrost.net/praying-the-prayers-of-the-nativity-a-daily-rhythm/#respond Mon, 23 Dec 2019 02:55:52 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=29258 As we get caught up in retelling the Christmas story, it’s easy to overlook the prayers of the nativity. Yes, the prayers. In the Gospel According to Luke, the narrative is punctuated at various points with beautiful, ancient prayers, expressions of praise and worship and wonder, delivered by people like Mary, Zechariah, and Simeon. And […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/praying-the-prayers-of-the-nativity-a-daily-rhythm/feed/ 0 29258 Is this the least biblical, most sexist hymn ever written? https://mikefrost.net/is-this-the-least-biblical-most-sexist-hymn-ever-written/ https://mikefrost.net/is-this-the-least-biblical-most-sexist-hymn-ever-written/#comments Wed, 27 Nov 2019 19:56:52 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=29195 I’m sorry if you really like it, but I think Mary, Did You Know? is the least biblical, most sexist Christmas song ever written. Least biblical because if you reeled off the 17 patronizing questions contained in the lyrics of that song to the real Mary, she might have thrown a rock at you. The […]

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