Bite 5 by FP: The ‘strings attached’ both enable and restrain the individual. They portray the exploration of the everyday but changing family interactions and patterns facilitating the emergence of self, highlighting cultural values and the ties that bind, both in a spiritual and physical sense.

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Bite 5 by NN: There will be moments when the knotted threads that bind us to patriarchal forms of religion as well as authority dominated patterns of human relationships which have become constricting, destructive and suffocating, must be untangled and the status quo challenged. The Jewish rabbi Jesus of Nazareth has shown us how to do this by cultivating in our being a sense of compassion informed by a sense of doing justice. Personal encounters imbued with these qualities facilitate the emergence of self in those fortunate enough to gravitate within the orbit of a community or relationship grounded in these virtues.