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Learn more about the infancy narratives and Mary Magdalene in the New Testament, the formulation of midrash, feminist theology, feminist biblical spirituality, and the Black Madonna... and open yourself to an encounter with the Divine through the proclamation of the Gospel by the artists and storytellers recommended by The Nativity Project .....
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THE BIRTH OF THE MESSIAH: A Commentary on the Infancy Narratives in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, (New Updated Edition)
by Raymond E. Brown, S.S.
©1993 The Associated Sulpicians of the U.S.
Doubleday, New York, New York.
SOCIAL-SCIENCE COMMENTARY ON THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS
by Bruce J. Malina and Richard L. Rohrbaugh, ©1992.
Fortress Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota
INTRODUCING FEMINIST THEOLOGY
by Anne M. Clifford, ©2001
Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York
(Janet Mckenzie's "Jesus of the People" appears with discussion [pages 118-119] in the chapter titled "Feminist Perspectives on God.")

EPIPHANY © Janet McKenzie

THE MOONLIT PATH: Reflections on the Dark Feminine
edited by Fred Gustafson
by Nicolas-Hays, Inc., ©2002
(Read especially "The Return of the Black Madonna: A Sign of Our Times or How the Black Madonna Is Shaking Us Up for the 21st Century" [pages 81-96], by Matthew Fox. See also Plate 2 --Janet McKenzie's "Jesus of the People" --and read the commentary on this controversial image in Cedrus Monte's reflection [pages 33-35]"At the Threshold of Psycho-Genesis/ The Mournful Face of God").

ADVENT, CHRISTMAS, AND EPIPHANY
by Megan McKenna, ©1998
Volume I: Stories and Reflections on the Sunday Readings
Volume II: Stories and Reflections on the Daily Readings
Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York in 2 volumes.
Available also as a 2 -volume cased set

GUADALUPE: Mother of the New Creation
by Virgil Elizondo, ©1997
Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York

IN MEMORY OF HER, Tenth Anniversary Edition
by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, ©1994. Published by Crossroad, New York

WOMEN AND THE WORD (1986 Madeleva Lecture in Spirituality)
by Sandra M. Schneiders, ©1986. Paulist Press, New York

THE WOMEN AROUND JESUS
by Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel, ©1994. Crossroad, New York

MARY MAGDALENE UNDERSTOOD
by Jane Schaberg with Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre, ©2006
The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc., New York

MARY MAGDALENE, THE FIRST APOSTLE
: The Struggle for Authority
by Ann Graham Brock, Harvard Theological Studies 51, ©2003 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

SEARCHING FOR MARY MAGDALENE - a journey through art and literature
by Jane Lahr, ©2006. Welcome Books, New York

MARY MAGDALEN, MYTH AND METAPHOR
by Susan Haskins, ©1993
Riverhead Books, New York

WOMEN PREACHERS AND PROPHETS through Two Millennia of Christianity
edited by Beverly Mayne Kienzle and Pamela J. Walker, ©1998
University of California Press, Berkeley, California

THE GOSPEL OF MARY OF MAGDALA: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle
by Karen L. King, ©2003
Polebridge Press, Santa Rosa, California


Audio Tapes :
STORIES FROM STARLIGHT
by John Shea
(Set of two 90-minute tapes)
©1993 ACTA Publications, Chicago, IL

Art :
CHRIST FOR ALL PEOPLE: Celebrating a World of Christian Art
edited by Ron O'Grady, ©2001 Asian Christian Art Association
Pace Publishing, Aukland , New Zealand
(Janet Mckenzie's "Jesus of the People" [pages 30-31] is the first contemporary image of Christ presented in this collection.)

Fiction :
THE RED TENT
by Anita Diamant, ©1997.
Picador, USA, New York, NY

THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES
by Sue Monk Kidd ©2002.
Published by Penguin Putnam Inc. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England.

Music :
When asked for her suggestions for resources, Janet McKenzie submitted the following:
"I am going to suggest perhaps a unique resource especially coming from a visual artist. It is neither a book nor another image. It is music. Both of your works ("Epiphany" and "Mary with the Midwives") were created to many, many hours of this music played over and over and over. This work speaks to my heart of hearts and inspires me like nothing else can. I suggest it to you for your resource page. It is Henryk Gorecki's "Symphony No. 3" (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) Opus 36, 1976 (Elecktra Nonesuch) sung by Dawn Upshaw. I can think of nothing better to suggest."

EPIPHANY CAROL
by James Hansen, ©2003
OCP Publications, Portland, OR

Congregation, SAB Choir, Keyboard, Guitar, and Solo Instrument in C and B flat
For EPIPHANY, BAPTISM OF JESUS, and THE WEDDING FEAST AT CANA,
as well as for the special celebrations of ordination, religious profession, first Mass or funeral.