[Magdalen] Tattoo

[Grace Cangialosi]

Nadia Boltz-Weber, the radical Lutheran pastor and founder of The House for
All Sinners and Saints congregation in Colorado, has many tattoos,
including "sleeves." I was so turned off the first time I saw pictures of
her, that I didn't even want to read anything she had to say.  But in her
first book, "Pastrix," she explains them--one of the sleeves is a portrayal
of Mary Magdalene's story--so they don't bother me quite as much.  And I've
heard her speak/preach twice and read both books.  She is amazing. And her
congregation has been taken in as a legitimate ELCA congregation.  But the
tattoos still bother me...

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 9:25 AM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> >>>Some women have their mastectomy scars tattooed over ... google
> *mastectomy
> tattoos* and click on images if you dare. I think they're gorgeous and such
> a wonderful way of reclaiming your body.<<<
>
> My twice-mastectomied mother, even when younger, would have said,
> categorically, "Yack!"
>
> (I haven't looked at the pictures; I'm merely relating what she'dve said.
> If looking at it all today through a modern lens, she might have actually
> considered it.  Hers left her considerably scarred.)
>



-- 
Grace Cangialosi
Ruckersville, VA

*“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us
guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” - Dietrich
Bonhoeffer*