OpinionViewpoints

Craving the Maternal

In a world shot through with chaos, disorder, ugliness, and the vile, we want something more; we want the beauty of the maternal.
Save
Craving the Maternal
Shutterstock
Carrie Gress
Updated:
0:00
Commentary

I just listened to Tammy Peterson’s story of the miraculous healing of her cancer in the Hallow app’s Pray40 Lenten series. In this short reflection, Ms. Peterson, the wife of Jordan Peterson, spoke of her cynicism and self-reliance before the discovery of a disease that neither she nor any doctor on earth could cure. She was given 10 months to live.

Carrie Gress
Carrie Gress
Author
Carrie Gress is a fellow at the Ethics & Public Policy Center and a scholar at the Institute for Human Ecology at Catholic University of America. She is also the editor of TheologyOfHome.com and the author of numerous books, including “The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture From Toxic Femininity.” Her forthcoming book is "The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us" (Regnery, 2023).