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Christian life in The School of Athens
My upbringing made me a Platonist. Motherhood made me an Aristotelian. I never left either behind.
The skin of Christ
The church is a body: scarred and punctured but feeling its way through the world.
by Rachel Mann
Our holy, human bodies
To build the Beloved Community, we need to think and talk and act differently about bodies.
by Julian DeShazier
A church made of dust
After each service, I sweep up the dirt, specks of plastic, and tendrils of hair.
by Melissa Florer-Bixler
This is my broken body
When illness took over my life, I developed a new understanding of the Eucharist.
by Kay Lynn Northcutt
How I came to love embodied prayer
I tried it—and I began to experience God in places other than my head.
by Mindy Roll
A body in pain navigates the world
Poet Molly McCully Brown’s memoir of life with cerebral palsy
by Frances Kitson