Jesus and Women – Exposing the Divine Taboo Nature of Sonshine Misfit Girls and Boys
Jesus and Women – Exposing the Divine Taboo Nature of Sonshine
Misfit Girls and Boys
Quotes from the reading that stuck out:
Mary’s song…..three themes appear: “praise, salvation, and humiliation/exaltation.” - These three elements of Mary’s song are the same elements that I feel create what we call out on the water as an experience of “laughter and tears.”
Love the drama and suspense of how he sets up the cosmic tomb raider scene when he writes – “But in the resurrection the only male is the angel, and the women are the central figures all through the story as it appears in Mark. They step out of the shadows to the center of the stage and everything hangs on the question, Will the women overcome their fear? The reader knows that the resounding answer is yes!”
Mary’s song…..three themes appear: “praise, salvation, and humiliation/exaltation.” - These three elements of Mary’s song are the same elements that I feel create what we call out on the water as an experience of “laughter and tears.”
Love the drama and suspense of how he sets up the cosmic tomb raider scene when he writes – “But in the resurrection the only male is the angel, and the women are the central figures all through the story as it appears in Mark. They step out of the shadows to the center of the stage and everything hangs on the question, Will the women overcome their fear? The reader knows that the resounding answer is yes!”
“He breaks the social taboo against talking to a woman,
particularly in an uninhabited place with no witnesses.” - I always like these types of explanations
of Christ’s behavior because I (like many others who have served at Sonshine)
have endured a fairly intense amount of ridicule by influential folks in my
life (especially in my 20's) who saw my pursuit of camp ministry as, in their minds, EXTREMELY taboo. The clearest form of criticism
was, and I heard it more than once, “Steve’s serving at that camp……he had such
potential…. what a waste.”
A song that
best captures for me the misfit somewhat taboo nature of serving at Sonshine is
Switchfoot’s Who We Are.
At the moment I can think of no other song that better expresses my personal Sonshine journey.
And, again, I feel like my experience is common and at a deeper level,
my experience may even be somewhat archetypal in nature of this truth –
Christianity isn’t necessarily what got me out of trouble. Instead, its what has gotten me into trouble….
Soooo, here are the lyrics of Who We Are – the song that I see as an anthem of the taboo nature of Sonshine misfit girls and boys.
"Who We Are"
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We were just kids just living in
Wide-eyed, innocence
minivan floor like a tenement
We were just kids who believed in
More than just dreams in
More than just justified
Ends to a means
With the sky wide-open
Like a child, eyes-open
like a child, unbroken
by the wheels gone by
We know
Who we are
(in the fever of our youth)
Who we are
(We've got nothing left to lose)
Who we are
(There's still time enough to choose)
Who we are
Who we are
Who we are
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We were just kids
Just limited, misfit, itinerant
Outcasts singing bout the dissonance
We were just kids, wide-open
Like a child, eyes-open,
Like a child, unbroken
by the wheels gone by
We know
Who we are
(in the fever of our youth)
Who we are
(We've got nothing left to lose)
Who we are
(There's still time enough to choose)
Who we are
Who we are
Who we are
Who we are
Who we are
They said we'd never make it this far
But we are
They said the fight would break us
But the struggle helped to make
Who we are
Who we are
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Who we are
(in the fever of our youth)
Who we are
(We've got nothing left to lose)
Who we are
(There's still time enough to choose)
Who we are
Who we are
Who we are
Who we are
(I wanted something with meaning)
Who we are
(Yeah I wanted something to believe in)
Who we are
(Yeah, sure as I'm here breathing)
Who we are
(I wanted more)
Who we are
(Yeah, I wanted more)
Who we are
(Yeah, I wanted more than just a feeling)
Who we are
Who we are
(Yeah, for more than just a season)
Who we are
Who we are
(Yeah, we become what we believe in)
Who we are
Who we are
Who we are
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