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Maggi has kept a blog since September 2003, writing about theology and faith, the arts and literature, and a little about life and random nonsense...
In an increasingly secularised society few people have a good working knowledge of the Bible. Yet a great deal of our culture is built on stories or ideas that come from the Bible. Literature, art, music, language and even the fabric of our society - such as our justice system - are built on Christian concepts and biblical references. The Writing on the Wall provides a fascinating introduction to the Bible's best-known, and most influential, stories. Each chapter gives some background to the text of the Bible, and shows how the stories have become enmeshed in Western culture. Adam and Eve, the ten plagues of Egypt, The Prodigal Son and Mary Magdalene all feature - along with how the Bible has influenced everyone from Shakespeare to Monty Python, and Caravaggio to Banksy. 
Giving It Up explores the Lenten idea of 'giving up', taking it beyond the traditional idea of simply abstaining from something, and suggesting instead that what we need to give up is our existing ideas about God. With a daily readings for each day of Lent, from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, it follows the heroes of the Bible who had to give up their own too-small ideas about God.
This is Maggi’s bestselling book of daily readings for each day of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany. Advent is the beginning of the Church year, and marks the anticipation of the coming Messiah. These readings explore how beginnings and endings in our own lives are illuminated by the different Gospel narratives of Christ's coming.
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What really surprises me, is that considering the General Editor that people were expecting female contributors.
Joke’s on them, women wrote Judges ;o)
I can appreciate that the subset of humanity called “Bible geeks” might be slightly gender loaded, along with all other geeks, but I’m a bit amazed there’s no woman, no not one, worthy to contribute more on a project like this than doing the typing or making the coffee. Furthermore, I admit there’s no such thing as a neutral translation, but the trend towards Christian subcultures producing their own bible versions, presumably to reinforce and massage their own prejudices, does disturb me — I thought only the JW’s needed to do that kind of thing, but apparently not…
Well, you’ve gotta take the Bible literally. And as the Bible says in John, Chapter 1 (in the sample page posted on the ESV website), “In him was life, and the life was the light of _men_.” So obviously women don’t have any light and can’t be among the 95 contributors (which does include the theology editor, a priest who left our diocese where he lives recently to join the Southern Cone).
Oy vey!
For any who care, a post at Between Two Worlds provoked me to write my own thoughts on the women in church thing.