6/30/2023 0 Comments Maud newton ancestor troubleThe image above is Chagall’s Rachel and the Household Gods, inspired by the story in Genesis (which I wrote about in 2015 ).Īs the story goes, Rachel’s husband, Jacob, has spent twenty years working for her father, Laban. So it interests me that ancestor veneration is suggested even in the Bible. While I don’t feel connected to Christianity, I’ll probably always be in mental dialogue with it, whether I want to be or not. Now I’ve given up my allegiance to unbelief, and that’s a little scary to navigate and strange to talk about. Ultimately, I reacted by becoming a devout agnostic but fearing a future religious conversion. I attended a fundamentalist school, with yet another spin on the gospel. My mom started a Hallelujahful church in our living room, and my father, though also born-again, went to a Presbyterian church and was mortified by hers. This development, like my family, is complicated. Recently these kinds of practices have become important to me. Over time, I’ve been drawn to ancestor-focused spiritual practices.
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