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I think people often underestimate the potential educational value of senseless memes. For example, thanks to Spiders Georg, literally every teenager on Tumblr has a reasonable grasp of what a statistical outlier is and the sorts of problems that outliers can introduce into a naïve analysis. There are grown adults who don’t get that - I deal with them on a daily basis.

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Many aspects of Americanism are contemptible and grotesque but not God’s glorious favorite sandwich the PB&J

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the internet is full of disappointment. sitting quietly on the couch with a cup of tea while thinking of THE LORD will never let u down

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I attended a The Oh Hellos ( @theohfficialhellos )  concert this past Friday, which happened to coincide with Good Friday.  One of there songs, Caesar, describes Christ’s Passion, so I had to make a comic and give it to them (I was able to give it to their merch guy, I hope the rest of band saw it!)

On an aside, that night, the concert, was particularly healing for me, as I’ve been going through some dark valleys lately.  Sometimes Gods love appears in the form of a banjo ya know?

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“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”

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Christianity and The Body

The Oh Hellos, Hieroglyphs || Romans 8:23 || Michelangelo, Detail from The Creation of Adam || The Oh Hellos, Zephyrus || C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity || The Oh Hellos, Hieroglyphs || C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters || 1 Corinthians 15:53 || The Oh Hellos, Thus Always to Tyrants || Ezekiel 37:5-6 || The Oh Hellos, Grow || John 1:14 || Gerard Van Honthorst, Adoration of the Shepherds

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“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbour; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.”

—C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity.

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YOU live in a society. i live in the kingdom of god and have been forgiven my transgressions 5349 times

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the idea that I can offer to unite my suffering with christ’s, that I can actively choose and ask for god to take pointless unjust pain and make something out of it—something beyond my comprehension but no less real—feels very very very different from the idea that my suffering is justified by “god’s plan”

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just read the most vash passage of poetry @rithmeres are you seeing this

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Judas gave into despair judas gave into despair judas gave into despair. Peter denied and repented. The prodigal came home. The prostitute fell at His feet. The publican was justified. At the 11th hour the thief confessed His kingship. Fall get up fall get up. It’s ok it’s ok. It can be ok.

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What I hate about people reducing Jesus’s message to “be kind to each other,” besides the obvious, is that it’s a serious downgrade from Jesus telling us to love each other radically. Your neighbor is the person on the street in front of you. Your brother has to be forgiven more times than you can count. Wash each other’s feet, if they steal your coat give them your robes, die for each other. Jesus didn’t call us to be ‘nice,’ because nice just doesn’t cut it. He calls us to be lovers, not of some amorphous humanity, but of every single person we encounter.

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“Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.”

A bible found fused to the iron wreckage at ground zero in New York. The page showing contains the verse above.

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Paris - July 3rd, 2011

Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise.

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Mohja Kahf, “Most Wanted”, Hagar Poems

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