“God the Mother came to me and ... “What moved them to fashion their magnificent abstract designs? Their art and religions were a great mystery I took with me to Europe and kept with me ...

The 1969 Roman Calendar reform recovered Jan. 1 as the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. This is among the oldest ... That’s not uncommon in Christian art about the circumcision.

And yet the Hebrew Bible tells us this same God “convulsed in labor for you,” “gave birth to you,” and “suckled you” (Deuteronomy 32:13 and 18). Such contrasting images—of Divine Father and Divine ...

And because he is both, she is “Mother of God.” “Nature” is, after all, something of an abstract concept ... Like medieval Western art, icons do not adhere to the simple canons of space ...

Listen On the first day of 2025, Pope Francis warned Christians against “imagining or inventing a God in the abstract” during his Mass for the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God.

Mormonism’s Heavenly Mother has gone mainstream ... of my Heavenly Parents to remain abstract. It makes it less likely for worldly concepts of who we want God to be to interfere with who ...