According to the Miriam Webster dictionary, a social construct is an idea that has been created and accepted by society. (reference) Gender, along with the accompanying commonly accepted gender roles are social constructs, ones that we may not have even realized we've been socialized into until we start unpacking things. Social constructs are why our…
I joke quite a bit that we can blame Descartes for geometry (and math!), but I feel like there's something even larger than the trouble with math that we need to blame him for, and that's the modern concept of mind-body dualism. He wasn't the first to write about it, and in fact the idea…
There's a theological term known as "Imago Dei" which is the Latin translation of Image of God. This term is often applied uniquely to humanity, rather than seeing the plant or animal kingdom as imago Dei, and refers to the fact that humans were made in the image of God. This term is most often…
If you type the words "body theology" into a web search engine, you'll most likely come up with a statement made by Pope John Paul II. Certainly most of the results served to you will be related to this statement (or a book by James B. Nelson if you're lucky), and none of them will…