Lent, gender and revelation
Confession, and Lent in its penitential character, is not about adding guilt or punishment to our suffering, but the removal of shame. We are liberated
Juli Mallett is rector of the Anglican Parish of Salt Spring Island and a working psychotherapist. She teaches and writes about interpersonal leadership skills, queer embodiment and the natural world as a site of theological imagination.
Confession, and Lent in its penitential character, is not about adding guilt or punishment to our suffering, but the removal of shame. We are liberated
The umbrella term “trans” (shortened from “transgender”) captures people with a range of experiences around gender identity, usually distilled down to something like this: people