Honey for what aches. Scripture for what wanders. Witness for what endures.
The bees know something the empire has always tried to suppress: that the work of the collective is sacred, that the sweetest things require tending, that resurrection is not a metaphor for the comfortable... it is a promise made to the ones who have been in the tomb.
This is a column written from inside the tradition and at its edges. From the place where the text gets complicated and the pew gets hard and the question you were told not to ask turns out to be the most holy one in the room. I am a clergywoman, a beekeeper, a woman who has sat with the dying and marched in the streets and wondered, in the same week, whether God is good.
I believe God is. I also believe that certainty is not the same as faith, that doubt is not apostasy, that the Spirit has always moved toward the margins — and that your question belongs here, whatever it is.
Write in. I will answer with honey: slow, particular, gathered from real flowers, offered without condition.
The God I serve is not fragile. Your questions will not break what is holy. Ask anyway. Ask especially.— The Beekeeper
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