The short answer to the title's question is, Yes, totally. But it wasn't just about lusty glares. Jesus dared us to pluck out anything within us that objectifies or commodifies another. It's part of his most famous spiel, "the sermon on the mount," which is most clearly presented vision for how his followers should live. Not a set of rules to obey, but a trajectory of faithfulness to enter the flow of: one marked together by gentleness, fidelity, justice, and love. The kinds of things our economy and ruling powers abhor. For a show about antifascist readings of the Bible, there's a lot to dig into!

Our guest cohost is Frances Cutshaw, D.Min. (she/they). Frances is the Founder and "Wilderness Abbess" of the Order of Hildegard, an unaffiliated community of practice which exists to center, celebrate and develop the interfaith cross-vocational spiritual leadership of those marginalized by traditional religious structures such as LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, people with disabilities and neurodiversities and those otherwise disillusioned with harmful, puritanical patriarchal religious structures. She recently completed her thesis "Shame as the Great Obstacle and Unexpected Invitation to Shalom." They were raised on the tribal lands of the Cherokee Nation in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and lives somewhat south of there these days.

• Order of St Hildegard
• Frances' Substack

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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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