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Jen's avatar

“... that we could be baptized simply because we want to wash ourselves clean of the need to understand.”

I love this perspective. I have waffled in my faith for a third of my life now (Doubter’s Prayer was a rope that I clung to during a particularly rough go; I’m a doubter by nature) and never felt worthy enough--or certain enough--to be Baptized. I want to believe, but have always felt like an imposter during any Christianity schtick. It’s hard to speak that language and not feel like a fraud. After all, how could one just DECIDE to dump all the eggs into the supernatural basket upon which your eternal soul rests without a mountain of evidence?

But simplifying it like you did, accepting uncertainty as one of the only certainties, is such a beautiful possibility. Perhaps the first step toward clarity.

Thank you for sharing this.

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Sophia Laettner Joubert's avatar

Would so love if you share readings related to feminine perspective in Christianity - agree that it has been missing and this is something that drew me further into spirituality/ oneness concept of God and a bit away from Christianity as I saw it presented, especially while I was in college years. Though, while I was at Duke, a Divinity professor told me that some Episcopalian theologians consider Mary (Mother) as the fourth and feminine aspect of triune god.. and that strikes as interesting. Regardless, I don't see much use in assigning gender to aspects of god, but like thinking of god generally as embodying both masculine and feminine energies in divine balance. Still, very interested in seeing more feminine influence in Christianity.

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