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'gender transition won't make you happy, only Jesus will' is not only an extremely annoying thing to say but i think probably a violation of James 2.16

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For whatever reason God wants me to blog. Idk why. This how Job must have felt………….

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“My Christian grandmother and my Muslim grandmother in Palestine”

- Shared by a Palestinian man on Facebook

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hi. this article makes me cry happy tears. i love that this father’s faith enriched his understanding and acceptance of his trans daughter, rather than hindering it.

there are so many stories that equate “turning away from faith” = acceptance and understanding. it doesn’t need to be this way.

i love this little story. he’s just one man, fighting for his trans daughter in missouri. but he’s southern and he’s christian and he’s conservative and he loves his daughter so, so much. and now he fights for trans children in missouri. and i think that’s wonderful. i love that he found god’s love in his heart and that it opened up this whole new world for him.

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i hope you succeed. i hope we both succeed. i hope god has wonderful things in store for us together

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thinking about jesus’s scars and this. thinking about how people demand proof of trans suffering in order to acknowledge them as people worthy of being. thinking about how thomas did the same thing to our brother jesus. thinking about how jesus will always always always be on the side of trans people

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André Devambez (French, 1867-1944) - Holy water or The devil chased out of church

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Mildly out of the blue, but may I drop in here with something about the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe that I think about A Lot?

So, the image is divinely generated— that is, it manifested instantaneously, and there are no discernable characteristics of work done by human hands (like paintstrokes, underpainting, pigment actually being ON the tilma, etc.)— and yet there is, undeniably, a distinct STYLE to the image. It's precise in its detail, but not at all photorealistic (that wouldn't be as swag, anyway). It looks like a painting! It looks like someone planned, designed, and executed that image. It's stylized, in a way that is identifiable with most religious iconography at the time of its appearance!

Here's what makes me so crazy about this: does this mean some lucky motherfucker in heaven got to design/paint/otherwise make that image before it was instantaneously transferred to that tilma??? I think a lot about who that might be, if so 👀

HI YEAH!!!

so one thing — you’re right that there’s no underpainting or sketch, but i did read briefly that the researcher sol rosales reported that the tilma had been prepared with white paint—however, that was way back in 1982, and no one else seems to have supported this, so conclusion: ???. everyone else does tend to agree that it certainly looks divinely manifested tho lol.

i DO think it’s fantastic that it’s survived so many years, though! i love that no one has figured out why it’s so durable, they just kinda throw their hands in the air.

also YEAH as for the artist up in heaven thing—major props to them. but just imagine being approached for a project and being told your client is HOLY MOTHER MARY. i would lose it

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virgin mary please please please appear to me i promise i won’t tell anyone or make a big deal out of it (lying)

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A verse that really got me thinking today:

“If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world" - John 12,47 NIV

Jesus said this. He said he came to save the world, not judge it. His business was not to judge, but to save regardless. No matter what I may have done, all the things and moments i judge myself for- He does not. He does not judge me.

But he saves me. If i let him, he saves me. With absolutely no judgement. And that, to me, is one of the purest forms of love

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basically the whole bible happens to me daily

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thinking about that one post about america that’s like “I love you jazz and national parks and baseball and 50s diners” and feeling the same way about (the good part of) the culture of being christian. i love you gregorian chant and vivaldi’s gloria and handel’s messiah and unclouded day and didn’t my lord deliver daniel and the oh hellos’ dear wormwood and praise to the lord the almighty and jesus loves me. i love you ancient ethiopian churches dug into the earth and st basil’s in red square and la sagrada familia and washington national cathedral and little wooden frame churches in hidden corners of every country and two or three gathered where no one can build a building. i love you the concept of the imago dei and the ending of roman exposure of infants and the abolition of the british slave trade and the battle hymn of the republic (“as he died to make men holy let us die to make men free”!) and the calling of men to love and sacrifice for women rather than rule them and caring for those everyone else left behind even if it means inconvenience or personal cost. i love you stained glass windows and elaborate wall mosaics and icons and the gospels as painted by rembrandt and the pictures in children’s bibles. i love you gerard manley hopkins and john donne and (sometimes) john milton and george herbert and ts eliot and mary oliver. i love you lucy pevensie and frodo baggins and meg murray and the narrative of the universe in which what is weak has been chosen to shame what is strong. i love you self-sacrifice in roman coliseums and at the stake and in nazi-occupied europe and every day in small acts of love for fellow human beings and small denials of hatred and self-centeredness and cruelty. i love you, concept that ultimate beauty and truth and justice and goodness and love are the center and the end of the entire universe.

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personally i believe that normal people AND cis people are welcomed into the faith :)

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I remember so clearly watching the 2017 eclipse with my cousins, and the moment the sky went dark, one of them, who was about 6 at the time, turned to me and said, "This is what the sky looked like when Jesus died." And I've just never forgotten that simple wonder pointing out something so obvious that I would never have considered.

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I work in an art gallery with some amazing works by Vincent Van Gogh, and I keep find myself defending his honor. People frustrate me to no end.

Some people look at his artwork, which is full of immense love for the world, and go, "Oh, how sad. He was crazy. Isn't this painting SAD?" And, it's one of the most joyful paintings on earth.

The worst people are those who mock his artwork because he was "crazy". Upon looking at a beautiful, delicate, loving, and meditative artwork, a father nudged his son. "Isn't this the crazy guy who cut off his own ear?" The son laughed. "That's disgusting," the son said, and they laughed together.

Vincent Van Gogh wanted to be a priest. He felt God's love in everything and everyone. The priesthood didn't work out, but nevertheless Vincent especially felt God's love in the unloved. He painted every breeze in the air, and the veins in the unnoticed laborer's hands.

I don't think Van Gogh's swirling spirals are crazy. I think they're meditations on God's love, breathed through all Creation. To me, these paintings are a prayer.

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Truly love the number of people I've met that have been like "Well I went to a Catholic school as a kid, which is to say I'm not Catholic" like damn Catholic schools really out here doing the exact opposite of missionary work.