skuaIn the Christian #LiturgicalYear, we're now got a a woman giving birth. Everyone, and all of our ancestors, made it through some such event.
#JackSpong in the video, from a naturalist (non-supernatural), historical (there was a Jesus) view, looks at how this woman was presented in the New Testament writings.
One of Spong's ideas is that some stories of Jesus were developed later to make a liturgical year.
John Shelby Spong - The Mother of Jesus: A Symbol of Judaism
John Shelby Spong explains how the 4th Gospel creates a symbol from the presence of Christ's mother. This is the fourth lecture of a five lecture series. Thi...