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Personal Gnosis In Our Bodies

Body TheologyNovember 12, 202518Views 0Likes 0Comments

I'm getting ready to defend my thesis on Friday and one of the core aspects of it is personal gnosis, commonly called unverified personal gnosis or UPG. Gnosis comes from a Greek noun which means knowledge, and if you search the definition the Oxford dictionary (as listed by Google) gives an even more detailed definition…

Episode 17: An Attempt To Define Spiritual Story

Podcast (Feathermane Soul Wisdom)November 2, 202544Views 0Likes 0Comments

What is a spiritual story? What the heck am I talking about? Spiritual story is something I've been thinking about a lot to try and define into something I can share with others who will understand that I'm not talking about religion, and I'm talking about something that intersects with all areas of our lives.…

Finding the Sacred In A Painful Body

Body TheologyJuly 2, 202572Views 0Likes 0Comments

July is Disability Pride Month and so for this month I will be talking about spirituality, sacredness, and our relationship to the divine in a body that's both socially, medically, and through the minority group model disabled. In short, there are multiple models of disability, and what this means is that people are disabled through…

Can Sick Bodies Be Divine?

Body Theology, Chronic Illness, DisabilityJune 18, 2025100Views 0Likes 0Comments

I'm almost 30 pages into my thesis talking about disability liberation, so allow me to indulge myself a bit by blogging about not just a topic I'm extremely interested in, but also one that impacts me personally. Today is an especially rough flare day for my chronic illness/disability. Honestly, with this wild weather we've been…

Let’s Talk Social Constructs

Body TheologyMay 21, 2025245Views 0Likes 0Comments

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…

Theology of the Body Requires Getting To Know The Body

Body TheologyMay 14, 2025197Views 0Likes 0Comments

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…

Defining Body Theology

Body Theology, spiritualityMarch 19, 2025313Views 0Likes 0Comments

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…

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Personal Gnosis In Our Bodies

Episode 17: An Attempt To Define Spiritual Story

Finding the Sacred In A Painful Body

Can Sick Bodies Be Divine?

Theology of the Body Requires Getting To Know The Body

Defining Body Theology

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