Sacred & Secular

Sacred & Secular

Breaking the Curse

How an ancient story still challenges inherited pain and modern exclusion

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Paul Ian Clarke
Feb 14, 2026
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Soft light breaking through the entrance of an ancient canvas tent at dusk, illuminating the shadows within and symbolising the exposure of hidden shame and the possibility of healing across generations.
Taken in Somerset, England by Paul Ian Clarke

There are some stories in scripture that feel distant at first glance; strange, ancient, and wrapped in cultural detail.

Then there are stories that refuse to stay in the past.

They name things we still struggle to talk about: inherited shame, social exclusion, the quiet wounds that pass from generation to gen…

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