Tag: virgin mary
5 things to know about Mary, the mother of Jesus
Jan van Eyck, The Ghent Altarpiece, 1432. Virgin Mary detail. Wikimedia Commons
Mary, the mother of Jesus, is unquestionably the senior saint within the Christian tradition....
From virgin births to purity movements: Christians and their problem with sex
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It took 400 years, but sometime in the early fifth century Christians transformed a tradition about Jesus’s miraculous virgin birth into a...