The Whole Person Revolution

Natality, Mary, and Feminine Wisdom

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We are often told to contemplate our mortality, but how often do we contemplate our natality? In this episode, Jennifer Banks, author of the new book Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth, and Margarita Mooney Clayton, author of the essay “The Marian Gift of Dependence,” in our fall issue, talk about the ways that gaining a sense of our natality overcomes our more destructive tendencies of autonomy and control. The Virgin Mary in particular exhibits this kind of receptivity and dependence in a way that speaks to people of all walks of life.

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  Anne Snyder

  Anne Snyder is the editor-in-chief of Comment magazine and host of The Whole Person Revolution.

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  Jeff Reimer

  Jeff Reimer is an associate editor of Comment magazine.

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  Jennifer Banks

  Jennifer Banks is senior executive editor at Yale University Press.

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  Margarita Mooney Clayton

  Margarita Mooney Clayton is an associate professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and founder of Scala Foundation.