Reclaiming the Nativity:
The Mary They Didn’t Teach You

Too many of us were handed a Mary who was quiet, compliant, and soft around the edges. A meek and mild girl who said yes and then stepped aside. But that’s not the Mary of Luke 1. The Mary of Scripture is a poor young woman in an occupied land who sings about God bringing down the powerful and lifting up the lowly. She sings about filling the hungry and sending the rich away empty. And her song didn’t come out of nowhere. She learned it from her mothers. Miriam sang at the sea. Deborah sang after the battle. Hannah sang when her prayer was answered. Mary picked up their melody and carried it forward, and it has been sung by resisters ever since, from the freedom songs of the civil rights movement to the songs rising in our own streets. Join us as we reclaim Mary as a prophet and a justice ancestor, and ask what it might mean for us to keep singing her song.

Come for an evening of candlelight, conversation, and sacred imagination. We’ll enjoy a hot chocolate bar and collect donations for our community. We’ll go home with a resistance song to carry us through this Advent season.