What is it that defines us, as beings? What gives cohesion to our sense of ourselves, and then establishes our relationship to others?
These questions were bopping around in my head the other day as I was walking the dog. They hovered about, like the summer gnats that flew around me in a cloud.
Two ways of understanding identity surfaced and played off of one another. On the one hand, identity as brand. On the other, faith.
