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Wearing God
Wearing God: Clothing, Laughter, Fire, and Other Overlooked Ways of Meeting God | Lauren F. Winner
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Lauren F. Winnera leading writer at the crossroads of culture and spirituality and author of Still and Girl Meets Godjoins the ranks of luminaries such as Anne Lamott and Barbara Brown Taylor with this exploration of little knownand, so, little usedbiblical metaphors for God, metaphors which can open new doorways for our lives and spiritualities. There are hundreds of metaphors for God, but the church only uses a few familiar images: creator, judge, savior, father. In Wearing God, Lauren Winner gathers a number of lesser-known tropes, reflecting on how they work biblically and culturally, and reveals how they can deepen our spiritual lives. Exploring the notion of God as clothing, Winner reflects on how we are clothed with Christ or how God fits us like a garment. She then analyzes how clothing functions culturally to shape our ideals and identify our community, and ruminates on how this new metaphor can function to create new possibilities for our lives. For each biblical metaphorGod as the vine/vintner who animates life; the lactation consultant; and the comedian, showing us our follies, for exampleWinner surveys the historical, literary, and cultural landscapes in order to revive and heal our souls.
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BarbaraJean
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I‘ve gotten so much out of every book I‘ve read by Lauren Winner. And this was no exception. She explores several metaphors for God, from clothing to laughter to bread and wine—some more surprising than others, but all offering an invitation to look at God and BE with God in new and unexpected ways. I especially appreciated her examination of the image of God as a laboring woman. Deeply thoughtful and spiritually powerful throughout—recommended!

BarbaraJean @monalyisha I think you were interested in seeing my review of this—I finally got around to posting it! 5y
monalyisha Thanks for tagging me! Totally still interested. Great review! 5y
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Yesterday was hectic & I didn‘t manage to get my #WeeklyForecast posted. Here‘s my plan for the week:
✅Finish Thirst & Wearing God
⚓️ 2/3 through Ship of Destiny
❓Maybe start Scarlet Pimpernel or I‘ll Be Your Blue Sky, depending on my mood
📚I‘ll be keeping up my daily reading of Word by Word & need to figure out whether to bail on View from the Cheap Seats 😱 or renew it one last time. I didn‘t finish my planned 100 pages last week, so...🤷🏻‍♀️

Cinfhen Once again points for emojis 🙌🏻 sometimes timing with a book is off and it‘s ok to put it aside ( #hibernation 🐻) and perhaps re-visit at another time. That‘s not quite bailing and it‘s very freeing ☮️😊 5y
cirrusrider I love Thirst! 5y
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In pursuing the Bible‘s images of God, I have discovered a lot about my own biases. When the scriptures depict God doing something people do...I automatically go to an image
of a middle-class white person‘s doing that same thing & reason backward from
that picture to God. But I believe that God identifies foremost with the marginalized... Jesus could have told his friends...that they would find him whenever they patronized the craft cocktail bar⤵️

BarbaraJean ...in downtown Durham where I and my friends hang out. Instead Jesus told them He could be found when they fed hungry people or visited incarcerated people. 5y
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“There are plenty of psychological and even medical reason why our images of God matter. Scholars have found correlations between the ways a person imagines God, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, eating disorders, shame, and alcoholism. People who primarily imagine God to be distant and judging, as opposed to intimate and loving, tend more toward psychopathology and have a higher rate of gun ownership.”

Totally makes sense, but also—😂

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