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The Gospels introduce us to a woman suffering for many years, who is healed after touching the fringed hem of Jesus’ garment. Unraveling, tells a story of another individual’s experience with shame, suffering, and ultimately with healing. These 21 pieces, mostly poems, capture a journey marked by the undeniable ways church heals us and the unholy ways church harms us. Told through the frame of liturgical seasons, Rebecca’s words will break your heart and fill it, as she leads us through her experience of answering a call to ministry in the United Methodist Church, pursuing ordination, embracing her queer sexuality, and making the unbelievably difficult and amazingly liberating decision to walk away. This story leads us to question if healing flows from garments or from the unraveling of power and tradition. Is it our faith that makes us well or our desire to live in authenticity and wholeness