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Hannah Shanks is a writer, social worker, professor, advocate, and caffeine addict living in St. Louis, Missouri.
Her first work, This is My Body: Embracing the Messiness of Faith and Motherhood is available through your favorite bookseller, or through Amazon.
by Hannah Shanks
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Hi. Is this on?
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I’m gonna say a thing.
It’s a theology thing.
It’s a theology and women’s bodies thing.
It’s both a public and intensely personal thing.
Christians believe in the Incarnation – that is, God, in an abundant act of love for humankind, took on a body like ours to walk among us. To be nurtured, live, teach, suffer and die among us. And (I believe) did so to prove that we NEVER stop belonging to God, and to demonstrated how much God longs to be with us. In fact, this human is known in scripture as Immanuel, “God-with-Us.”