Sermons from Lyndale
Redistributing Communion
Was it hard, this countercultural, anti-capitalist way of life? Was there struggling, and disagreement, and pettiness? Probably. They were human, and community is messy. But what is remembered of them? What is recorded? “They ate with glad and generous hearts.”
O Sacred Demon of Ungovernableness: A Non-Binary Sermon.
There have always been people who see the fairies, who do not fit into a given culture’s gender, who fail at becoming the ideal man or woman, and who can’t help but love the earth. I am perverse, rebelling against the normal state of affairs, but most people fail to meet these ideals. Ideal Man, Ideal Woman. Indeed, an ideal is intended to be unreachable: an imaginary whose power bends our reality toward a specific direction. But there are other imaginaries, other realties, that have been, are now and could be.
Embodiment and Presence
A lot of people judge Thomas for this disbelief, and I’ve never been able to find it in myself to do that. There are many ways to understand belief. There are the words, and then there is the felt sense, the embodied knowledge. I think most of us want to rest in embodied knowledge all the time.