{"id":1060,"date":"2021-07-27T14:43:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T13:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radiescent.wordpress.com\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2021-07-27T14:43:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T13:43:43","slug":"mary-icon-of-christian-anarchists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/2021\/07\/27\/mary-icon-of-christian-anarchists\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary: Icon of Christian Anarchists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From this story in the Washington Post, – https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/religion\/mary-mother-of-jesus-returns-as-an-icon-for-pop-stars-and-social-justice-warriors\/2021\/07\/26\/439e234c-ee64-11eb-81b2-9b7061a582d8_story.html<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ben Wildflower<\/a> is a mail carrier by day and artist in his off hours. In 2017, he made a woodcut<\/a> that showed Mary, her fist raised over her head, feet resting on a skull and a serpent (the former is a motif usually associated with Jesus\u2019 disciple Mary Magdalene, while the latter is in keeping with historical representations of Mary, Jesus\u2019 mother, triumphing over original sin). In a circle around Wildflower\u2019s image are the words \u201cFill the hungry. Cast down the mighty. Lift the lowly. Send the rich away.\u201d When he posted it on Instagram, it went viral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some critics called the woodcut\u2019s message \u201cun-Christian,\u201d protesting that \u201cGod loves everyone.\u201d The taunting language, however, was pulled directly from the Magnificat, the gospel writer Luke\u2019s version of a song attributed to Mary, that from earliest Christian times was seen as so revolutionary public readings of it have been banned<\/a> in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wildflower, the child of evangelical Christian missionaries, now attends an Anglican church, is committed to living in solidarity with the poor and has been described as a \u201cChristian anarchist.\u201d He finds himself deeply drawn to the mother of Jesus and said he likes Mary\u2019s vision of hierarchies being turned upside down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more art from Ben Wildflower visit https:\/\/benwildflower.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From this story in the Washington Post, – https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/religion\/mary-mother-of-jesus-returns-as-an-icon-for-pop-stars-and-social-justice-warriors\/2021\/07\/26\/439e234c-ee64-11eb-81b2-9b7061a582d8_story.html Ben Wildflower is a mail carrier by day and artist in his off hours. In 2017, he made a woodcut that showed Mary, her fist raised over her head, feet resting on a skull and a serpent (the former is a motif usually associated with Jesus\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christian-anarchism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}