I remember my first pride as a queer Christian woman. It was the most safe environment I’d ever been in. There is nothing to fear about erotic affection. Nothing at all. You are so right about the gentleness exuding from those who have been forgiven. So brilliantly put.
Always a wonderful view of God's love and our world.
Well said
Jesus wasn’t scandalized by the woman’s touch because he’d already been anointed by another wild one who saw him, not just worshiped him.
Mary Magdalene didn’t just cry at his feet—she stood with him in transmission.
She got him. In the Gospel of Mary, she names the inner powers. She teaches the disciples.
Peter freaks out. Jesus doesn’t.
Mary wasn’t a sinner. She was a seer.
And the church spent 2,000 years turning her into a cautionary tale because it couldn’t handle a woman being Christ’s equal in wisdom and devotion.
The woman in this story? She carries that same flame. Erotic, embodied, awake.
The kind of love that doesn’t wait for permission.
The kind of presence that makes buttoned-up Pharisees sweat through their theology.
—Virgin Monk Boy
Scandalized by love, not liberation.
I remember my first pride as a queer Christian woman. It was the most safe environment I’d ever been in. There is nothing to fear about erotic affection. Nothing at all. You are so right about the gentleness exuding from those who have been forgiven. So brilliantly put.
wow. Never imaged the woman could be seen as queer, refreshing articule. Thanks Brian.
Thank you. ❤️🏳️🌈