The Old Testament has a great deal to say about bodies. What can these ancient Scriptures reflect back to us about our own deeply opinionated times when it comes to bodies?
In this Scripture-based retreat we will prayerfully and conversationally engage with some Old Testament texts on bodies with two questions hovering in the background: What can these ancient texts reflect back to us about the body-obsessions of our own times? And how do we reconcile these body-obsessions with the insistence in Genesis that “we are made in the image of God”?
We live in times that can feel overwhelming with so many heated opinions about bodies: opinions about birth and death, about sex, about illness and ageing. Perhaps we will begin to appreciate that there is little new under the sun as we pray with and reflect upon a selection of texts about the embodied human condition from Genesis, Leviticus, Song of Songs, and others.
