Take a closer look at Mary this Easter

This Easter, let’s not forget about Mary. This deeply complex woman of strength, sorrow and unwavering faith is worth another look

My faith was formed in the evangelical Church, and it has only been in recent years that I’ve realised this gave me an incomplete perception of Mary.

Art and popular culture often portray her as one-dimensional. Young, beautiful, serene, doting, passive and white. In church, I knew to be wary of thinking too much about Mary, because Catholics were said to be obsessed with her, and we didn’t want to make that mistake.