“Reality is an ally of God.”
— Richard Rohr

When I was in dental school, I spent most afternoons with the rest of my class in the lab, where we’d toil over fake teeth for three hours. It was just as fun as it sounds, which led to filling the time with wandering conversations over diverse topics. Religion often came up, as this was Alabama—the buckle of the Bible belt—and one afternoon a friend of mine laughed over an idea he’d had: did Jesus and the disciples ever fart in front of each other?

I was horrified. My friend was going off the rails, I was sure, and needed to be contained. At the time, I was in my early twenties and therefore knew everything while having no sense of humor about anything. I glared at him, saying he was being disrespectful (I’m sure the words Our Lord and Savior figured in heavily to my tirade). He maintained his opinion that Jesus and the disciples were comfortable enough with each other for wind to have broken; I maintained mine that the mere thought was blasphemy. We never did resolve the issue.

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