Ellie Roscher

I did not think this was where we were going, but I'm so happy.

So I wrote my master's thesis on the Gospel of Mark, which is the shortest gospel.

It's my favorite.

It's the one that was written the closest to Jesus's life, even though he never met Jesus.

So man has an agenda, has limitations, has an audience.

So I studied it like a story.

And one of the things that I noticed about Jesus's body over the course of the story is that it becomes more porous.

As the story goes on, the beginning of the story, Jesus walks around how we think about like God's power on earth, like superpowers, like, you know, talking to the storm and the storms calming, snapping his fingers and things happen, which was a certain type of power.

But people were responding to this kind of efficient, cold power with fear and awe.

And that's not what he was going for.

So over the course of the story, you see his body becoming more porous.

There's a story where he uses a spit.

to heal a blind man.

You know, like that bodily fluid that's really intimate.

And it's like instead of just snapping his fingers or using his voice, there's power in his saliva.

Then there's the story where the woman touches his clothes and she's healed and he doesn't even know it's happening.

So there's literally power seeping out of his body involuntarily.

And so if you know then what we thought about male and female bodies, then what's happening in this story is that his body is becoming more feminine.

Oh, it's seeping more like a menstruating woman or like a breastfeeding woman and his people's responding to his more feminine body with faith and love instead of fear and awe, which is what he was going for.

So you take a look, for example, at our politicians, right, who are inciting fear and trying to get awe.