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    Posted on September 20, 2016September 17, 2016
    Reflections on C Wess Daniel's "A Convergent Model of Renewal" - read on KateRaeDavis.com

    Reflections on A Convergent Model of Renewal by C Wess Daniels, how to be the church, and how I understand my life in the church.

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    About Kate Rae Davis I live in Seattle with my husband, dog, and stacks of books. I love well-told stories of all sorts, and I believe they have a lot to teach us about what it means to be human and to be in relationship with the Master Storyteller (one of many titles for the divine force often referred to as God). Read more...

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    • A decade ago, during a conversation that was supposed to be about a book I had written on politics, the British man interviewing me insisted that instead of talking about the products of my mind, we should talk about the fruit of my loins, or the lack thereof. Onstage, he hounded me about why I didn’t have children. No answer I gave could satisfy him. His position seemed to be that I must have children, that it was incomprehensible that I did not, and so we had to talk about why I didn’t, rather than about the books I did have.

      As it happens, there are many reasons why I don’t have children: I am very good at birth control; though I love children and adore aunthood, I also love solitude; I was raised by unhappy, unkind people, and I wanted neither to replicate their form of parenting nor to create human beings who might feel about me the way that I felt about my begetters; I really wanted to write books, which as I’ve done it is a fairly consuming vocation. I’m not dogmatic about not having kids. I might have had them under other circumstances and been fine — as I am now.

      But just because the question can be answered doesn’t mean that I ought to answer it, or that it ought to be asked. The interviewer’s question was indecent, because it presumed that women should have children, and that a woman’s reproductive activities were naturally public business. More fundamentally, the question assumed that there was only one proper way for a woman to live.

      Rebecca Solnit’s Harper’s essay on the meaning of a woman’s life is a work of irrepressible genius. 

      Complement it with celebrated writers on the choice not to have children, then revisit Solnit on finding yourself by getting lost. 

      (via explore-blog)

      YES.

      03/21/18

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