Week 1: On the Road to Healing–Liberating Hope

Week 1: On the Road to Healing–Liberating Hope

The eerie revelation to self that isolates one in the face of an sacred community. What is revealed is a moral inferiority that makes one vulnerable to irresistible forces. As a state of feeling, shame is fearful, chaotic, holistic and humbling. -Definition of shame...
Prostitutes, Prodigals, and Perpetrators

Prostitutes, Prodigals, and Perpetrators

A social outcast, Mary Magdalene was the bad girl of Galilee.  Women warned their sons about that woman and respectable men turned away in embarrassment at her knowing smile.  Mary was hopeless.  Rejected.  Irredeemable. A beloved son rejected his father and his God...