The Hydraulics of the Divine

There are several scholarly commentaries about Jesus and the Samaritan women. Several of them celebrate the irony involved in the incident about who will ultimately give water and to whom. Other’s like Raymond Brown reflects on the fact that Jesus chooses to transgress the accepted norms of social intercourse of his time. In the request: ‘give me a drink’,...

GREETINGS

There is an aesthetic ugliness.

But there is also an uglification that is constructed to please or delight a certain privileged group.

- Fr Victor Ferrao