Earworms: Rise Up, O Men of God / Oh Come Oh Come Emmanuel

What's a girl to do?

Are you struggling in your faith community or otherwise because of mansplaining, unexamined male privilege, gendered conversation styles, toxic masculinity, needs mid-meeting for consultations in the Ad-hoc Gender issues Conference Room, aka the women's restroom?

You could...sit down for prayerful reflection with queries and a process elder to talk things through sincerely.

OR

just double down on signifiers of masculinity. Bring on the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, singing Rise up oh Men of God. Blow out the mental cobwebs with pipe organ and male voices. THEN go back to the prayerful seasoning.





But what if the earworm shared in Meeting for Worship with that special Christmas in August feel is "Oh, come, Oh come Emmanuel?"

God, to the extent that the Google is in tune with God recommends this wonderful instrumental version.


Oh, come Oh Come Emmanual and ransom captive israel.

Wait, what is the theology of that, especially the ransom part? God with us, the wonderful ambiguity of the Spanish "entre nosotros," within us, among us?

Never mind.

Listen to the music. Listen to the music even if you are not used to pasting sonic metaphors into vexing challenges. Listen to the music. Then go back to words.

In Light and Faithfulness

RantWoman