Milk
Christianity is so weird, but everyone pretends like it isn’t.
Tommy Orange • Wandering Stars
Icons are something like sacraments in materiality: they participate in what they represent and communicate the sacredness to the believer.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
The ancient belief, which persisted for centuries, that mother’s milk was transformed blood reinforced the image. As a mother nurtured her young, Christ nurtured the flock with his blood during the Eucharist.
Siri Hustvedt • Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays
“All that is solid melts into air; all that is holy is profaned,” as Marx and Engels proclaimed in The Communist Manifesto. Far from being bastions of piety, the bourgeois masters of capitalism have “drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor … in the icy water of egotistical calculation.” What if those waters of pecuniary reason const
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