Friday 24 August 2012
…the Christian tradition is rooted in a rejection of facile “family values,” however surprising that may seem to some. There was from the start a strong ascetic tendency that was also a counter-cultural tendency, resisting the centrality of marriage and child-bearing in defining social roles and also in circumscribing desire, and in this it was especially liberating for women, but not only women. Virginia Burrus ☀
