Because naked means you’ve got no clothes on, and nekkid means you’ve got no clothes on and are up to something. Resurrection is a revolutionary experience, and comes highly recommended. There is a power and a vulnerability in nekkid resurrection, unapologetic and embodied.
About Brian:
Brian Ammons is an educator, spiritual director, author, and ordained Baptist minister. He lives and works in the intersections of gender, sexuality, spirituality, and justice, with particular attention to how systems of knowing shape our understanding of the possibilities (or impossibilities) of how those threads might be woven together. If he were ever to accomplish what he’s trying to do, encountering Brian’s work might feel something like attending a Sunday dinner in the North Carolina piedmont in which Walter Wink, Paulo Friere, and Marcella Althaus-Reid sit down with Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Gloria Anzaldua. Resisting the bifurcation of theory and practice, the sacred and the mundane, the academy and the streets, and the church and the world, he locates himself as a borderdweller in ever-shifting liminal spaces. Though his postmodern aesthetic makes it unlikely that he would use these words to describe himself, he is mostly okay with being understood as a gay Christian evangelist to the evangelicals. Perhaps something like “category snubbing child of God who loves to hear and tell stories” comes closer to describing his vocation.
Brian is an Assistant Professor of the Practice in Education at Duke University and co-pastor of Trinity’s Place. He speaks frequently to church, community, and school groups about sexuality and Christianity; the problematic politics of identity; sexual violence in the church; men and masculinities; and pedagogy as spiritual practice.
I am glad to have met you at the “Big Tent Thang” these last couple of days, and appreciate so much your faith and words. I especially appreciated your distinction between “identity” and “identification.” You also helped me to remember how important folks like Steve Sprinkle and Justine H. at NCSU have been in the formation of my own faith. Of the 35 at Big Tent you made my Top Three!