Radical Vulnerability: The Self-Threshing of God
I’ve been surprised at how difficult it is to get Episcopalians to understand my urgency about religious trauma.
I’ve been surprised at how difficult it is to get Episcopalians to understand my urgency about religious trauma.
Today we celebrate the Visitation of Mary. The Visitation is when Mary, pregnant with Jesus, goes to visit her cousin Elizabeth, pregnant with John (the baptizer). I like to think about this holy friendship—this time of mutual support and love for each other.
Maundy Thursday offers a bookend of touch to Ash Wednesday: a touch on the forehead with ashes juxtaposed with the touch of hands, soap, and water on feet. These are fleeting moments of tenderness, thin spaces of vulnerability, connection.