“We have the capacity to join Divine Love in the creative and joyful impulse to restore right relationship by drawing on the elemental truths of how we are made to dream of a better world and to live to make it come true. ”
The desire for transformation around how bodies move and have our being in the world comes from many places, but the primal source of our shared desire comes from our own suffering, our own dis-ease with how we participate in and exacerbate so many kinds of suffering. We humans are born seeking deep connection as a means for our safety, comfort and thriving. We are wired for right relationship, and we languish when relationships are untrustworthy.
Faith can both expand and stifle our imagination when it comes to the actual work of collective liberation. Historically in America, whitelashes have been fueled by disinformation embedded in colonized versions of Christianity. For progressive Christianity to have a liberating impact on cultural transformation, it must be intentionally and systemically decolonized, divorced for white supremacy, patriarchy, homophobia, and heteronormativity.
Liberating Bodies: Collective Transformation in a 21st Century Whitelash is both provocation and invitation to engage these pressing questions and realities around how progressive Christianity can be a potent instrument in the work of collective liberation. This book is both theology of embodiment and liberation practice. Bodies need liberating and bodies have singular liberating capacity for human collective life. Liberating Bodies brings rich description to what is possible and to what’s at stake in how progressive faith communities engage in movements for collective liberation in these turbulent times.