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Podcast: Sexvangelicals
Episode: S4E02: Holiday Horror Stories: How to Reclaim the Joy of Christmas, with Kelley, Kelly Anne, and Emma of the Woman Being Podcast
Description: The Christmas story starts with a teenage girl, Mary, and an angel of God.  Kelley Werner, co-host of the Woman Being Podcast, explains: "She's portrayed as this passive participant in her faith. There's an edification of her. "Lord, whatever you say, I will do. So be it." She's passively impregnated by an angel, and becomes this side character in the narrative of Jesus.  That angle was always impressed upon us as young women: Keeping our posture very open to whatever God or men determine is like our best path."  The Christmas story, as we talk about with Kelley, Kelly Anne Carter, and...