Blue teases out the rich metaphors and “weirdness” of stories like Namaan the leper, who receives healing for no good reason. She inhabits the story of original sin as the choice to elbow our way out of relatedness with God and each other, because we somehow believe that God is the One holding back. And she reveals a Christ who sometimes speaks like a cryptic jester, loves those whom Che Guevara and the Pharisees would agree to despise, and who doesn’t stand back from us.
Debbie Blue is one of the founding pastors of House of Mercy, a church in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota. The congregation includes writers, musicians, and visual artists whose work organically finds its way into the study and worshiping life of the community. Guest artists have included Ralph Stanley, Charlie Louvin, Michelle Shocked, Gordon Gano of the Violent Femmes, Tim Rollins, and theologian James Alison. Reverend Blue is the author of Sensual Orthodoxy (Cathedral Hill Press, 2003) and From Stone to Living Word: Letting the Bible Live Again (Brazos Press, 2008). Her essays, sermons, and reflections on the scripture have appeared in Life in Body, Proclaiming the Scandal of the Cross, The OE Journal, Geez, and The Christian Century.
Bibliography
- Sensual Orthodoxy (Brazos Press, 2008)
- From Stone to Living Word: Letting the Bible Live Again (Cathedral Hill Press, 2004)
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