Let the Cracking Open Continue: Believing in Kenosis, Practicing Solidarity for the Common Good

Stephanie Spellers’ The Church Cracked Open should be required reading for every Episcopalian and Christian who seeks to follow the liberative, loving, compassionate, pastoral, prophetic way of Jesus. “cracking open” church our lives, however painful traumatic, can leveraged good, as it allows structural injustices spiritual wounds aided abetted by dominant forms uncovered, examined, possibly healed transformed in liberating In this reflection, I focus on two core ethical practices that Spellers proposes culmination her book—kenosis solidarity—asking questions offering examples how these might show up polity, places worship, broader communities which we minister.