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The transgressive in Jesus’s healing stories
In these two healing stories, Jesus offers information we’d rather skip over, providence we’d rather not have and cast only onto him.
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Transgress—the limits and purpose of boundaries
It is not only about right and wrong, but is entirely about our relationship to the rules themselves and to one another.
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Confession
“We don’t do confession.” I remember the conversations I used to have as a child about church. And it was usually how we do things differently or what is an E-piss-co-palian? Which always was accompanied with laughter. This childhood was in Alpena, a small city in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Alpena was largely Polish, then;…
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peterrollins.net » The King and His Jester
peterrollins.net » The King and His Jester: Religion and its Acceptable Transgressions In contrast to the jester, the trickster is someone who transgresses against a system they are part of in a way that genuinely jars the system itself. The trickster is a revolutionary figure who is able to expose the reactionary moral, political and…