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Saturday, December 07, 2013

"Mom, when Jesus was born, where were all the women?" Marcie Rendon's response is HANNAH: THE MIDWIFE WHO DELIVERED JESUS

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Marcie Rendon's daughters were raised in a matriarchal home. On Christmas Eve, 1990, one of her daughters asked her "Mom, when Jesus was born, where were all the women?" When I read that question, I thought to myself 'Oh yeah! There's only one female in that story!'

Marcie's response to her daughter's question is this e-book, Hannah: The Midwife Who Delivered Jesus. 

As I read the story Marcie created, I felt such warmth and goodness radiating from Hannah, and from that scene in the stable, and from the newborn babe, too. It is a deeply satisfying story. In addition to Hannah, you'll meet the innkeeper's daughter. It isn't graphic and it isn't anti-male in any way. It's just a beautiful story. I highly recommend it. 

Hannah: The Midwife Who Delivered Jesus is one of those books that you can't pin to a particular grade level. If you're not afraid of talking with students/patrons or your own elementary-aged kids about how babies are born, you can read this aloud to them. Older kids can read it on their own.

I had to create an account with SMASHWORDS to download it, but that was simple enough to do. The book itself is priced at $4.99. 
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1 comment:

  1. Maureen EWednesday, December 11, 2013 at 11:40:00 AM CST

    That's interesting, since depictions of Jesus's birth in my tradition (Eastern Orthodoxy) often show the midwives! For example, they're washing the baby Jesus at the bottom right here: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-w3OKBbWl3Cs/TutO8hDzscI/AAAAAAAADQI/5RTpfo2hIj8/s1600/Nativity+Icon.png

    Rendon's book sounds like an interesting counterpoint to the narrative most Western Christians get. Thanks for mentioning it.

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