Sermons from Lyndale
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.
Practicing Interbeing, Practicing Resurrection
And she said to me, I know that in Jesus, God knows in God’s body what it is to be tortured to death and so I know that God was holding my son as he died. And, furthermore, I know that in the resurrection, God has raised my son. And I know that if anything happens to me, God will be with me and will hold me and raise me up. And that makes me fearless.