Categories: Adult Enrichment, Archives 2023

Straying from the Path

At the adult ed hour on April 30, David Solem, a licensed clinical social worker, presents “Straying From the Path: Queer Theory and Queer Energy as Models for Individuation.” To learn more about cultural narratives and silenced voices, view the video.


Those who cannot perform normative cultural narratives often find their voices silenced because they are not adequately mirrored by the culture in which they find themselves.  A willingness to transgress traditional views in service to psychological and spiritual development involves a capacity for conscious suffering.  This authentic capacity is fragile and currently very much threatened by our cultural Zeitgeist—that of polarization, cancel culture, and overt demonstrations of violence against those who cannot perform the hegemonic narrative being imposed.

This continues our series on The Radical Christian Alternative.