The Rodeo

Justin had an (almost) throwaway line today while we were discussing resurrection in the Jewish scriptures. My paraphrase:

Even now, when there is almost no visible difference between Christians and “the world”, there are two areas where the distinction is evident: sex, and death.

Impersonal sex dominates the media; death is glossed-over and buried away. Christian morality calls for an extreme monogomy, a lifetime of sex exclusive to two people. And the Bible prompts a celebration of death as we look forward to “life after life after death”, the resurrection of our physical bodies as displayed in Jesus.

It is worth thinking about how and why we keep these areas “sacred”, and what other parts of our lives we can reclaim as distinctly Christian.

RodeoClown: anticipating.

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