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So, science news says that gravitational waves create a "constant hum" across the universe. Apparently, they do not understand that it's an ison. The universe does Byzantine chant.

Fr. Stephen Freeman

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in case anyone was forgetting what the church was all about

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3 things very special to me:

1. Platonic joy

2. Queer joy

3. Religious joy

Yay

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I pray this new month is good to you. That you are able to step into a healthy fresh start, and find some healing and relief for anything negative you've experienced in the prior months. I pray that even if you are so far from where you want to be, that you are able to be find happiness and achievement in where you are now, even if it feels like you've just taken the tiniest step forward (or no step at all). I pray that when you feel as though you're in trouble, you are able to find the help and support that you need. I pray you mange to find moments to pass that kindness onto others. I pray you manage to get those moments of peace, joy, and genuine happiness.

God loves you, and I love you. May God bless you, comfort you, and strengthen you and your loved ones <3

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Anyway God loves His trans and gender nonconforming children ❤️

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happy easter, beloveds. I am officially a godparent today, as well as witnessing three other baptisms and the reissuing of a baptismal certificate post-name change. the vigil is the renewal of our people, and the most ancient of our feasts. may its light reach out to those in the valley of the shadow of death. may the risen christ be with all the baptized, and may god walk with those on different paths. amen.

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Happy Easter!

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Missionary projects serve only to continue colonization and should be treated as such by Christians

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Comment or reblog if you want to be mutuals! I'm always looking for more leftist Christians <3

About me:

❀ she/her

❀ Christian Universalism, Mysticism, and Anglicanism

❀ Queer affirming (side a) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

❀ Pray for Palestine 🇵🇸

❀ Always was, Always will be Indigenous land 🖤💛❤️

❀ Pro-choice

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Reblog if you committed the sin of empathy today

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The person who re-blogged this wants you to know that they are open to questions regarding their spiritual path, witchcraft and faith, and in fact, would love to talk about their spiritual path with you and have a casual talk!!

(this applies to me pspspsps HMU , don't hesitate, i am always open to respectful discussion of our spiritual paths and just being friends!!)

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trinity diagram felt a little overdesigned so I mocked up a simpler version that's easier to understand

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drawn to the blood- sufjan stevens, war pieta- max ginsberg

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Christ and the Woman of Samaria

Artist: William Dyce (Scottish, 1806–1864)

Date: 1860

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Birmingham Museums Trust, London, United Kingdom

Samaritan Woman at the Well

The story of the nameless Samaritan woman at the well, recorded only in the Gospel of John, is a revealing one, full of many truths and powerful lessons for us today. The story of the woman at the well follows on the heels of the account of Jesus’ interaction with Nicodemus, a Pharisee and prominent member of the Jewish Sanhedrin (John 3:1–21). In John 4:4–42 we read about Jesus’ conversation with a lone Samaritan woman who had come to get water from a well (known as Jacob’s well) located about a half mile from the city of Sychar in Samaria.

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Far-right Christians really do the Bible a disservice by treating it as a book God dictated and had wrote down for him. It's a living document, ever evolving just as Christianity has. It's an imperfect work written by imperfect people talking about the perfect God within the context of their time and culture. I really want to make a project out of rereading my Bible and reading it that way.

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Okay uh

@christianawareness is deleting my replies (willful ignorance).

So I'm just going to say my thoughts here.

Even Atheists agree that Jesus was a historical person, the real debate is his status.

The claim that if Jesus was alive today, Christofascists/Christian Nationalists would hate him is very real. After all, Jesus was crucified by this exact type.

Jesus was very feminist, which is why in the past, Christianity was condemned by so many - for bringing gender equality.

Martin Luther King Jr. was Christian.

Jesus taught us to stand up for the oppressed.

We were WARNED about those who are Christian in name only.

From one POC, disabled, queer to another, I don't know what you're trying to do here. You say what you're doing is right, when in reality, you're spreading hateful rhetoric and misinformation. When you're corrected, you just delete the comment.

You're just spreading hate.

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do you believe judas was in love with Jesus? i dont know why, but its such a comforting thought to me.

yes, and i don’t blame judas at all. i mean, who wouldn’t fall in love with jesus? as an apostle you live every day with this man who gets blisters on his feet and who wipes tears from his eyes when he laughs too hard and who sweats and sings off-key and makes silly faces at newborn babies, but then something in him shifts and suddenly the blind gain vision, the flowers crimson and fall open, the dead stand up with hymns in their mouths, the fish can’t change themselves into loaves fast enough, and every time his hands brush yours as he passes the olive oil at supper you realize how much you crave becoming, how you’d turn your heart inside out if it meant he’d call you holy one more time–

i think ‘in love’ doesn’t cover the scope of it. the bond which one shares with divinity is beyond any notion of the romantic, platonic, or familial. judas felt jesus in his blood cells, burning within him the way a star burns, you know? but even as we feel the same burning today, i’m not sure that we believers with two thousand years of a boneless god behind us can really understand what it was like to be able to simply touch divinity. and if judas thought of what they had as like a marriage, if he sometimes pictured himself resting his head on jesus’ shoulder and speaking alone with him among the trees, and even after, when he was stained selfish with silver, if he imagined the kiss, if he imagined the messiah embracing him, well, that’s only natural, isn’t it?