Macky Alston

Carnal Knowledge of God

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Rebecca Voelkel's new book is a godsend. It is a strange thing that that which is most familiar, our very bodies, is the dimension of our living and thriving that we in so many religious contexts have largely neglected to explore when we think, talk, and theologize about liberation, God's design for humankind. The result of course is overlooked abuse and undiscovered opportunities for the in-breaking of God. With courage, lived experience, hard-won wisdom, and an insatiable appetite for the delicious, Voelkel moves across the broken glass of the violence borne of sexual repression and oppression toward a way of being in which love of our bodies in all their differences is seen as essential to the flourishing of all life, the deepest longing and delight of the divine.”