appearance
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The appearance and substance of Jesus is too often treated as separate, and relating to matter rather than our experience of him.
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In the Transfiguration, Jesus’s change frightens the disciples because the spectacle itself marks a change in their reality.
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How we look communicates something to other people. Only part of which is something under our control.
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Our appearance is invested with expectation and is fraught with mistakes and stereotypes. In other words: there is power there.