I hope so. Better that way round. A child should take its parents’ admiration for granted. Better to go into the world with too high an expectation of love than too low. The first person you encounter who makes you feel unattractive, annoying or stupid should not be the first person you encounter at all. That feeling should come as a surprise, not a confirmation. You should have a decent chance of understanding, by the time someone audibly criticises you, that opinion is subjective. I don’t picture myself sneering: “Get some weight off!”, or even gently advising a low-carb diet, to a needy child who cares for my opinion. More likely I’m clutching her to my own vast embonpoint (in the image, I’m wearing a purple jumper), proffering doughnuts, shouting: “You’re perfect! You’re a flawless, beautiful, brilliant gem!” at an irritated teenager who writhes to get free. As Director of the Institute of Theological Partnerships at University of Winchester I organised 3-5 conferences a year. Worshiping the Queer Jesus' in Queer Worship, Reconstructing Liturgical Theology eds Sharon Fennema, W.Scott Hademan, Stephen Burns , Bryan Cones, EVanston, Seabury Press, 2023.

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Isherwood presents a theological critique of what she perceives as a theological as well as a political and a social problem – the troubled relationship of women with food and their bodies, and society’s problem (it seems) with fat women. The fat body, Isherwood suggests, is read as the insufficiently controlled body, the “sinful” body, the body that is too material to be spiritual, the body that fails every test. Against this perception of the fat body she offers the image of the Fat Jesus – the Jesus in whose body boundaries are broken down, and fears of one’s own body and others’ bodies are overcome. It does require a level of personal and communal discernment to work through those,” she says, and the process raises questions of “What does that mean for how we go out and accompany others who we meet along the way?” The Sanhedrin arrested and tried Jesus Christ. Pontius Pilate sentenced him to be scourged and crucified. [9] Scholars note that there were two solar eclipses around the time of Jesus' death: one in 29 AD, and one in 33 AD. The Christian Gospels state that the skies darkened after the crucifixion, which suggests that his death coincided with one of these eclipses. [6]I never became thin, but I did stop caring. Thank God. Literally, I thank God for the liberation from my own craving to be different. Ungovernable teenage hormones behind me, I now could be thin if I did all the stuff (you know, low carbs, no booze, lots of poached fish and circuit training) but I simply don’t care enough to do it. For achieving such a communal conversation, Wilkinson lifts up the example of the large family gathered for dinner—loud, chaotic, sometimes arguing, often laughing, and sharing stories. “Itleads to the dialogue and the understanding of what we do at the table,” he says. By contrast, he notes that a culture defined by the rugged individual—whether feeling isolated in their spiritual practice or getting fast food alone after their shift—doesn’t have this dialogue. During the time of Christ, most Jews used only one name, which could be followed either by the phrase "son of . . . " or the person's hometown, which is why Jesus is often referred to as Jesus of Nazereth. [3] Zoë Bennett is Director of Post-graduate Studies in Pastoral Theology in the Cambridge Theological Federation and Anglia Ruskin University. Lesbian Theologies In The Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality and Gender, ed Adrian Thatcher, Oxford University Press, 2014

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Byzantine artists tended to reimagine Christ as a young version of Zeus, to show His place as a cosmic King. [10] My disappointment with the book lies in the thinness (pardon the expression) of its theology. In­trigued by the title Fat Jesus, I came to the book looking for some im­agina­tive playfulness that would open up a theological view of this topic in a creative way. But there was very little about Jesus — except that he seemed always to be at table, and so could hardly have been thin. This was an opportunity missed. in Buenos Aires, Conexion Queer: Revista Latinoamericana y Caribena de Teologias Queer, Vol 4: 2021, pp. 95-115.Some people think that “home truths” are part of love, and that pointing out weight gain is a sort of kindly, helpful intervention. It isn’t. People who are fat know they’re fat. They aren’t sitting there waiting for your divine pronouncement. You can only hurt them. Wandering in the Cosmos: Ecofeminism Moves On, Ecumenical Association of Asian Theologians, Bangalore, India, November 2013 If Bodies Matter is the Trinity Embodied Enough? A Case for Fleshy Christology in Transforming Exclusion, ed Hannah Bacon, T&T Clark, 2011

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We are living in a food and body image obsessed culture. We are encouraged to over-consume by the marketing and media that surround us and then berated by those same forces for doing so. At the same time, we are bombarded with images of unnaturally thin celebrities who go to enormous lengths to retain an unrealistic body image, either by extremes of dieting or through plastic surgery or both. The spiritual realm is not immune from these pressures, as can be seen in the flourishing of biblically and faith based weight loss programs that encourage women to lose weight physically and gain spiritually. WOMEN’S BODIES are central to both these books. In The Fat Jesus, Lisa Isherwood explores women’s fatness and thinness. In Controversies in Body Theology, a range of authors cover topics around the theme of slicing, mutilation, reconstruction, and cosmetic alteration. Both books treat themes that are of prime importance to millions of human beings, but that are often hushed up in church contexts. Both, however, somewhat disappointed my expectations. How Can a Feminist Remain a Christian? The Annual John Boswell Lecture, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, April 2013Having an aversion to food and disparaging certain types of bodies—whether one’s own or someone else’s—often result from embracing cultural norms that have nothing to do with Catholicism. They distance believers from loving others in their suffering and ultimately detach them from what it really means to be one body in Christ. El Cielo es un lugar mujeres gordos riendo' in Current Challenges to feminist Theological Ethics. Do Justice for Women, eds Gabriela di Renzo, Paula Carman & Eloisa Ortiz de Elguea, EDUCC Cordoba, Introducing Feminist Theology, Co-author Dorothea McEwan [Warburg Institute], Sheffield Academic Press; 1993; 2nd Edition, 2001