A Brief Theology of Periods (Yes, really): An Adventure for the Curious into Bodies, Womanhood, Time, Pain and Purpose-and How to Have a Better Time ... (What does the Bible say about menstruation?)

The womb is the only timepiece built into our bodies. “Consider this your invitation to a 28-day(ish) hormonal cocktail party that…you’re hosting in your body every month…What a marvellous thing to be standing in an ‘ice-cream shop’ full of multiple and varied flavours of feeling…Wouldn’t it be great to be a woman for whom the favourite topic was Christ?” ‘Obey everything’ that Jesus has commanded doesn’t stop at the baptism pool…we can’t leave our soul outside the toilet-cubicle door.” The sex talk shouldn’t be a big reveal; rather it should be small amounts of information being drip-fed organically into everyday conversation. In a society that has replaced phrases like “feminine hygiene” (which is gender exclusive) and “sanitary products” (which implies menstruation is dirty) with the period positive and inclusive phrases “people with periods” and “menstrual products,” “we’re jars of clay–and that’s ok.” Rachel Jones’ A Brief Theology of Periods (Yes, Really) is an adventure for the theologically curious. Looking at theology through the lens of biology, “It speaks about real life at the sharp end.” Rachel brandishes the idea that “The most beautiful things that have become the most broken things are restored to become the very best things.”