After they marry, she moves in with his family, sharing their poverty. She possesses a fierce determination to understand her gift – her interior life – and raise up the voices of women by writing histories of their lives.Īna falls in love with Jesus’ quiet intensity and warm laughter. Raised in a wealthy family, she grows up learning to read and write, skills that were strongly discouraged in women.
Who knows, Kidd asks, whether Jesus' wife, if he had one, was written out of the story because she didn't fit the Gospel narrative? And if he had a wife, who was she and where did she go?įrom this premise, Kidd imagines Ana, the young woman who becomes Jesus’ wife in the novel.
It seems reasonable, from a cultural and religious standpoint, to at least entertain the idea that Jesus, like most other Jewish men of the time, was married by age 20. As Sue Monk Kidd points out in her author’s note to “The Book of Longings,” the Bible is silent on his life from age 12 to 30. The Gospels never mention that Jesus had a wife. What will he change? Even at this stage of his career, he can still change hearts, offering emphatic testimony that soccer is indeed the beautiful game. Messi can be enjoyed by a nation that now has some appropriate appreciation of his genius. Here is a man who has a rightful place in the conversation about the best players ever to kick a soccer ball. When Pelé came to the United States in 1975, he was 50 years too early. He shows that MLS has arrived, or that it is still just a rest home for stars past their prime. To this, I might say: Who cares? None of us really have any clue what effect Mr. Messi is simply cashing in one last time before retirement. Messi’s arrival will be a watershed moment for American soccer, or Mr.
When the world is gripped in the first giddy moments of excitement, we often either bathe in the rosy glow of optimism or assume the practiced role of the skeptic. Messi’s career. At such a momentous moment, it is natural to ask momentous questions. At the end of one of the most storied careers in soccer history, the legend and World Cup hero is coming to Miami to play in Major League Soccer. Here is where we in the press insert countless breathless and portentous stories about what this means for American soccer, for America’s top professional league, and for Mr. By this point, many of you will have heard.
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