Recalling that I tend to think that, at least in part, Jesus healed people by restoring them to the community, addressing the exclusion and stigma if not the physical disease, I'm troubled by the recent backlash against and discussions of banning "pro eating disorders" communities here on LJ and elsewhere on the web. Some people claim that those ( Read more... )

Hi there.  From what little I know of those already joined up here, I'm the least theologically trained in any formal sense.  I have some ministry experience and a lot of curiosity, but it wasn't until I started hanging out with theogeeks a couple years ago that I had words to put to some of my thoughts and learned that I was not even close to ( Read more... )

hi, folks. i found my way here courtesy of giniliz. i've just finished my M.Div at chicago theological seminary, where i wrote my constructive theology paper on queering disability and how we can look at this as a framework for reimagining both the image of god and the beloved community (especially thinking of the church as the queer and/or broken body ( Read more... )