Reflections from Leviticus - Day 17

DAY SEVENTEEN
By Summer Kinard
 

Leviticus 12 & Churching

When I first read Leviticus 12, it was the late 1980s. I had been reared on TV commercials that portrayed women’s bodies as not fresh, not clean, embarrassing. Mothers in those ads were either sanitized to the point of unearthly tidiness or actually bathing as an escape from the pressures of loud chi…