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b'This week Brian and Fr. Shay tackle a well known passage from Ezekiel. What does this text have to say about queer and trans bodies? How can we queer this passage? All this and more on this week\\u2019s podcast!\\nRead the transcript (PDF)\\nEzekiel 37:1-14\\nThe Lord\\u2019s power overcame me, and while I was in the Lord\\u2019s spirit, he led me out and set me down in the middle of a certain valley. It was full of bones. He led me through them all around, and I saw that there were a great many of them on the valley floor, and they were very dry.\\nHe asked me, \\u201cHuman one, can these bones live again?\\u201d\\nI said, \\u201cLord God, only you know.\\u201d\\nHe said to me, \\u201cProphesy over these bones, and say to them, Dry bones, hear the Lord\\u2019s word! The Lord God proclaims to these bones: I am about to put breath in you, and you will live again. I will put sinews on you, place flesh on you, and cover you with skin. When I put breath in you, and you come to life, you will know that I am the Lord.\\u201d\\nI prophesied just as I was commanded. There was a great noise as I was prophesying, then a great quaking, and the bones came together, bone by bone. When I looked, suddenly there were sinews on them. The flesh appeared, and then they were covered over with skin. But there was still no breath in them.\\nHe said to me, \\u201cProphesy to the breath; prophesy, human one! Say to the breath, The Lord God proclaims: Come from the four winds, breath! Breathe into these dead bodies and let them live.\\u201d\\nI prophesied just as he commanded me. When the breath entered them, they came to life and stood on their feet, an extraordinarily large company.\\nHe said to me, \\u201cHuman one, these bones are the entire house of Israel. They say, \\u2018Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished. We are completely finished.\\u2019 So now, prophesy and say to them, The Lord God proclaims: I\\u2019m opening your graves! I will raise you up from your graves, my people, and I will bring you to Israel\\u2019s fertile land. You will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and raise you up from your graves, my people. I will put my breath in you, and you will live. I will plant you on your fertile land, and you will know that I am the Lord. I\\u2019ve spoken, and I will do it. This is what the Lord says.\\u201d\\nThe post Bodies Matter \\u2013 Ezekiel 37:1-14 appeared first on Queer Theology.'