–An Excerpt from my sermon on Sunday–
“Theology determine anthropology which determines policy.
This sentence means that what we believe to be true about God will determine how we view humans – ourselves and others – and that will determine the ways we choose to live with each other.
If we believe God does not love our bodies, we will not live in ways that take care of the bodies of others, or ourselves. We might even be ok with public policies that say we can destroy the bodies of others, if it suits our “Christian” goals. Some of us have been reading the TRC report together and so this makes me think specifically of our Canadian-Christian witness and legacy – IF God only cares about our souls and will throw away the body, it’s a hop, skip and a jump to denigrating Indiginous bodies for the sake of making Christians out of them. This did not lead to wholeness, flourishing, the abundance of love, joy, peace….. I know its a big subject but its ok to critique this.
If we do not have a robust understanding of what it means that God incarnated his whole self into Jesus for Our Whole Selves, then everything we do and say in the church will have no legs. What music we sing, how creative we are, how well we market, how many musicians we have on stage, how many commentaries we read, none of it will matter because the gospel we are telling would only speak to a fraction of our whole selves. It will just be pure energy with no body. This good news will limp, it will be lame. And those of us with power will way too easily be able to hurt those with less.”
There’s good news – there is– I have drawn my place in it. The Incarnated God is my hope and my salvation.
But….
What gets me about public christianity these days….its our witness sounds nothing like love for the body, mind and soul of each human. I grieve and read, talk, and grieve more a lot these days….
Its not even a matter of what do we do – its a matter of how do we listen now- how do we rend our hearts and turn…..
jacquimignault 
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