What happens when you stop apologizing for your body and start reading it as sacred text? In this episode of Excavations, I sit down with Ciarra Jones (@thegardeningtheologian) to talk about what it actually means to reclaim the body after religious trauma. We go deep on queer sexual ethics, the theology of pleasure, disability justice, Eve as liberator, and why so much of Christian tradition has needed us to stay at war with our own flesh.
This is a conversation for anyone who grew up being taught that their body was the problem and is starting to suspect the tradition was wrong.
We cover:
Queer theology and sexual ethics
Embodiment, pleasure, and the sacred body
Deconstruction and religious trauma
Disability justice and theology
Eve, death, rebirth, and what liberation actually costs
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