1/27/16 — CH6 “The Body Keeps The Score”

Discussion from chapter 6 “Losing Your Body, Losing Your Self” from The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

Van Der Kolk aptly titles his chapter to match the subject matter. Chapter 6 is all about how by losing our body, we…

1/19/16 — Feminist Theology and the Holy Spirit

While discussing our own interpretations and feelings about the Holy Spirit, we began naming the places in which we don’t feel connected to the spirit: for some, reading scripture evokes nothing; for others, attending church is unmoving. One setting that did bring connections…

2/13/16 Women and the Church: Mutuality — What if?

How does the church represent women? And how do women represent the church? These were two overarching questions/themes we struggled with this week as we discussed Susan Ross’s God’s Embodiment and Woman — Sacraments and Elizabeth Schüssler-Fiorenza’s Toward a Feminist…

3.7.2016 — “The Body Keeps the Score” Ch. 10

I am a child; I know not how to flow
between the flickering of dark and flame
close enough to cook without consumption.
I’m a stranger, and I can’t imagine
swimming without drowning, without just drowning
in your waves — my waves? your waves on me…