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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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  • Jotted down part of my own litany of resistance for you today.If you can't read my handwriting here is what it says:It's resistance! It's a resistance of the false and broken to embrace and practice the true and the whole. We are prophesying with our whole lives. In the face of poverty - generosity!In the face of ugliness - beauty!In the face of injustice - justice...and mercy!In the rhetoric of fear - declare "be not afraid!" In the face of racisms - reconciliation!In the face of despair - hope!In the face of abuse - healing!In the face of ignorance - wisdom and knowledge!We are embodying the world as it was meant to be now. We are setting things right...day by daychoice by choicemoment by momentperson by personbreath by breathResist with joy and peacelove and patiencekindness and gentlenessfaithfulness and goodnessself-control.This is all an act of faith ...see it all asit could beit should beit will be. - Sarah Bessey
  • My favourite spot in the whole world.
  • Project Weekend for Brian = his happy place. He's putting all these kids to work, tearing out old baseboards as God intended. Evie is his most diligent - and enthusiastic - pupil.
  • Oh just a bit of womens work.....knitting a few rows and plotting worldwide revolution.
  • These are two of my favourite people on the planet - Troy and Tara Livesay(@t_livesay and @taralivesay on here). Troy is the director of @heartlinehaiti and Tara is the director of their maternity centre. Tara also happens to be one of my best and dearest friends in the world. We talk almost daily. I also love Troy like he is my actual brother. Now one of my favourite “Tara-isms” is “less jaws, more paws.“ She wants less talk about justice and more doing justice. Less talk about how we value women especially the marginalized and the poor – and more actually valuing of them with our money and our prayers and our time.Less jaws about healing the world and more paws doing the work of it for real.There is a Hebrew concept called “tikkun olam“ that has caught my imagination over the past few years. It translates as “healing of the world” and it is considered the work of all of us. It is the work we are called to do, it is how we repair the world. I love this way of seeing the world: it gives me work to do that is sacred and necessary and daily. That’s what Heartline is to me. This is part of my tikkun olam.Heartline is one tangible way that I help to heal the world. I can’t save everyone and I can’t do everything – neither can you. I know it’s easy to get bogged down in the universal generalities of justice. The cure for my despair has been the hope of participating in actual real healing. I can’t change the story for every woman but I can participate in the healing of the world here in this small maternity centre in Port au Prince. I know the names of the women who deliver here. I’ve witnessed their work and it’s probably the holiest thing I’ve ever seen with my own soul.We're celebrating the tenth anniversary of @heartlinehaiti today. I wrote a whole big blog post about it - words, I have 'em. Please go to my profile and click the link. Donate whatever you can today. Spread the word. Tell Troy and Tara that they're doing a good job while you're at it. They're legit. Let's tell a good story today.Link to the blog post is http://sarahbessey.com/i-blame-the-women-heartline/
  • Oh Gord. Thank you for Bobcaygeon and the Wheat Kings, for those summer nights in Calgary and the sight of Zippo lighters held aloft in the darkness whole we sang along with you, for being a voice for justice and reconciliation and for holding us to our ideals while never erasing reality, for the way we all know the words to Ahead By A Century and the gift of your tender and strong last year with us. A deeply Canadian experience is distilled in your life and we are going to miss you, singing our shared life. Go with God, He Who Walks Among The Stars.

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