Welcome to The Diner!
It’s season two and you won’t want to miss out. Come sit at the counter of our virtual diner and let us serve you a slice of mental pie! It’ll go good with a cup of coffee, then you get your refreshed self back to the fray with a few new beautiful thoughts to think.
Today we start looking more closely at the triune calling that we all share — Priest, Prophet, King — and we connect that with the ideas of chiasm and enstasy and ecstasy. As usual it’s difficult to approach it linearly, but there’s plenty to chew on until next time.
Our main question to ponder this time is why it is that we (culturally) seem to understand the masculine gender calling (that ecstatic going forth) better than the enstatic feminine calling? In a similar vein, what does it mean to say that gender is an icon?
(you’ll notice somewhere in the middle a slight edit where I pasted in a segment after the fact — hopefully it’s not too distracting, but I couldn’t leave it out after I’d remembered who I was talking about!! ~ Lisa)
And don’t forget to check out Laura’s new sex ed curriculum: Sex Ed for Sane People
It’s “…a sex education curriculum written from an Orthodox perspective, from an author with a bachelor's degree in biology. Written for high school students on the cusp of adulthood, with the prerequisite of high school biology, this course introduces concepts in anatomy and physiology, embryology, theology, and ethics. This material is framed and presented as an expression of religious freedom.”
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