The sacred manifests in the flesh of the earth
While the world aches for transformation and healing, God is not a distant observer but an enfleshed presence at the margins, in the soil, in chaos and quiet, in pleasure and pain. The Divine is intimately entangled with all aspects of our collective life: The material. The political. The intimate. The sensual. The struggle. The places where they all meet.
With this assurance, enfleshed creates and facilitates spiritual resources for learning and unlearning dominance in belief and practice. As the Spirit, tender and fierce, calls us all to courage, enfleshed hopes to provide sources of deep spiritual nourishment for the work of collective liberation before us.
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![We often get asked why we chose the name “enfleshed” when we launched in 2017. Each Friday for the next five weeks, we’ll share a little bit about what’s behind the word for us. You can read the full explanation of this week's reason at the link in our bio.
When revelations about God are found entirely outside of our everyday lives and encounters with material life, claims can be made about God without any accountability for how those claims affect bodily life. (Think, God as anti-queer regardless of impact on queer life).
As a counter to such theologies, we at enfleshed choose to emphasize and prioritize an understanding of and encounter with divinity that begins and remains with material life (within and beyond our known universe and constructions of time). Spiritual life that understands bodies, land, food, health, pleasure, community, human practices and cultures as the landscape of God. Religion and spirituality as an “enfleshed” experience, reality, and commitment. The material consequences of theologies become the primary intention.
When the collective of material life is understood as “the Body of God” (Sallie McFague), then we encounter God by encountering life in the here and now (as past and future shape it). God becomes a set of encounters and practices as diverse as the flesh life bears. What harms the body of God is the evil with which our faith then wrestles. Spiritual liberation is inseparable from material liberation. When enfleshed, our individual orientations toward that liberation are shaped by our places in the body of God - our bodily and material locations - and the singular story of truth becomes instead a story of multiplicities and truths.
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