Bulawayo's words paint a clear yet lyrical message of life in Zimbabwe, a country in turmoil for decades under autocratic rule. (bookbrowse.com)
Mary, the mother of Jesus is central to Catholic piety, but throughout many centuries devotion to her did not carry the spiritual message of her life as expressed in her association with the radical Jesus and spelt out in the Magnificat. (religion-online.org)
My position is that genuine openness to this perception enables us to peel back the layers of misinterpretation that resulted from the church's turning away from this central thesis and to recapture the vital message of a living, interactive, supremely relational deity to whom Jesus consistently pointed, a God who wills to be intimately interconnected with God's people and God's world, i.e., the entire cosmos. (religion-online.org)