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On being a Christian and being a feminist … and belonging nowhere

Posted on January 24, 2017 by Sarah Bessey

  Well, hasn’t this been a … fun week? Jesus made a feminist out of me.  It’s true. I can’t make apologies for it, even though I know that Jesus plus feminist might be the one label that could alienate…

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Hi there, luv.

I'm Sarah.

Author of Jesus Feminist and Out of Sorts.

Writer and blogger. Sometimes preacher. Unqualified theologian. Recovering know-it-all.

Wife to Brian. Mum to four tinies. Western Canadian, born and raised and forever.

Happy-clappy Jesus follower. Social justice wannabe. Bookworm. Devotee of British television.

Total hugger.

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  • Train up a child.... according to Brian this involves hammers and power tools and mantras about "measure twice cut once" and custom garbage bin platforms for all
  • The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems. - Fr. Richard RohrMay you turn towards the light, friends. Let the week begin with your face towards love and light and truth and ordinary goodness.
  • Morning walks help me with morning mercies
  • There never was a girl more fully alive.
  • Ending the Sabbath with tinies rolling down hills. Highly recommend. 👍
  • For the others who also spend most church services in hallways and classrooms and hidden corners with kids and babies, maybe you wonder why you bother showing up on Sunday. (I know sometimes I do ... The only Sundays I know I can be in the whole service are when I am doing the preaching and even then I often find myself in the hallways with a squirmy tiny during the singing. 😂) But here we are anyway. We are just as much a part of our communities as the ones in the front row. Maybe someday our kids will be able to stay in for a whole service. Maybe not. But I want you to know I am glad you keep showing up. I see you. Sometimes church can be conversations and weary smiles and "yep, us too" moments with the other hallway-pacers and quiet-spot-seekers, it is singing from the back alone, it is empty classrooms with kids who just need a minute, it is a lot of effort for one more small seed to be sown.So solidarity... we made it there and stayed to the end sometimes that is the victory. 👊Thankful for churches who make room for those of us who need a bit of room to wander even on Sundays.

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