Watching the news, worrying about the hurricane, and praying for those in its path. I grew up on the Gulf Coast so I know a little bit of the horror of waiting...or leaving.
In the meantime, I'll be blogging. Lots of stories about where we are, how we got here, and where we are going next.
St. Casserole is on the way out as Hurricane Katrina heads in. Our blessings to you and yours as you seek sanctuary. Please know our prayers are with you.
Canticles shares a wonderful story about her school administration offering to help purchase the hearing aids she needs. What a blessing to work in a place where that spirit exists!
Hey Jules over at Faith or Fiction tells us about her truly terrible Friday/Saturday. I hope that today has been better so far!
Go see Jane Ellen's ordination invitation! Can we all come!?
Sue is back from vacation. She is rested and relaxed, and yet the worries of return to her day-to-day are looming. Isn't that always the way?
Happy Birthday Mibi! She's had a party thrown for her AND announced her journey toward priesthood! You go girl!
Songbird remembers a mystical moment and a turn in her path.
How could a day with church in it be anywhere as bad as Saturday was?
ReplyDeleteThanks for thinking about me. I'm on dry land and doing better. : )
Of course you can all come! And wear your shirts!!
ReplyDeleteFeminist theology is about more
ReplyDeleteThan the use of vibrators
In liturgical dance.
Feminist theology is about
The sexist silliness of saying
That God is a cosmic senior citizen
With hair on his chin
But not on his pussy.
Feminist theology's goals
Are to interrogate
The social construction
Of black womanhood
In relation to the African American experience
And ask if "womanist theology"
Might be a more gender-neutral term
Than "feminist theology" -
And more ladylike?
And feminist theology is about
The employment discrimination
Involved in asserting
That 3.5 billion clitorises
Disqualify the human beings
Attached to them
From being priests of Christ
And from the fringe benefits
Which being priests of Christ brings
In terms of pretty dresses
And pensions.
Apparently,
If you are the proud possessor
Of a penis,
You can pray better.
Feminist theology
Questions this dogma.
And feminist theology
Questions other things,
Such as why it is the case
In many churches
That there is so little
Handbag space
Provided on the High Altar,
And why most medieval
Easter sepulchres
Are not fitted with bidets.
These are live issues
For the female faithful
And they cannot be swept under
The kitchen sink.
It is not easy
To deliver a sermon in church
While you are doing the ironing.
It is true that you could
Get a man in
To do the ironing.
But that would mean
That the man would miss the sermon,
Or do the ironing
Down at the pub.
Or, more likely,
Mow the lawn instead
While laughing loudly
At football jokes
And peeing on the lavatory seat.
Men make such hopeless priests.