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but more about the people—and creatures—of God going about their lives and attempting to love one another

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The Book of Mary The popularity and use ofOf all the women in the Bible, writes Nicola Slee, Mary has been for me the most ambivalent, the most alien and yet, at some level, the most alluring. Ive taken a long time to come to heror for her to come to me. I grew up in a religious traditionlow church Methodismin which Mary hardly featured, other than in the nativity story. Yet it is hardly possible to exist as an inhabitant of the western world, with even half an eye open to the visual and