Christena Cleveland: Liberating the Incarnation

December 23, 2014

“More often than many of us would like to admit, powerful Christians have held captive the truth of the incarnation rather than releasing it in order to dismantle society’s inequitable power structures.”

Christena Cleveland, writing on the Faith and Leadership website, discusses how the “liberating truth” of Jesus’s incarnation has often been obfuscated to maintain a social construction that supports various forms of inequality.

“But rather than focusing on, submitting to and calling forth that truth, many Christians will spend the Advent/Christmas season engaged in individualism and consumerism, two forces that support social inequality. In many ways, the truth of the incarnation remains shackled.”

Read the article here.

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Lē Weaver identifies as a non-binary writer, musician, and feminist spiritual seeker. Their work draws attention to: the ongoing trauma experienced by women and LGBTQIA people in this “Christian” society; Christ/Sophia’s desire that each of us move deeper into our own practice of non-violence; and the desperate need to move away from an androcentric conception of God.

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