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HAPPY THANKSGIVING CANADIANS!

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Grace Cottage 

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Me too. Now, where are the Sante fan fictions? We need fan fics!

Just to let it be known, I am all in for Sam and Dante.

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Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow Canadians! This year in particular, it is important to remember the things for which we are grateful.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING CANADIANS!

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White Evangelicals, This is Why People Are Through With You

January 24, 2018/John Pavlovitz

Dear White Evangelicals,

I need to tell you something: People have had it with you.

They’re done.

They want nothing to do with you any longer, and here’s why:

They see your hypocrisy, your inconsistency, your incredibly selective mercy, and your thinly veiled supremacy.

For eight years they watched you relentlessly demonize a black President; a man faithfully married for 26 years; a doting father and husband without a hint of moral scandal or the slightest whiff of infidelity.

They watched you deny his personal faith convictions, argue his birthplace, and assail his character—all without cause or evidence. They saw you brandish Scriptures to malign him and use the laziest of racial stereotypes in criticizing him.

And through it all, White Evangelicals—you never once suggested that God placed him where he was, you never publicly offered prayers for him and his family, you never welcomed him to your Christian Universities, you never gave him the benefit of the doubt in any instance, you never spoke of offering him forgiveness or mercy, your evangelists never publicly thanked God for his leadership, your pastors never took to the pulpit to offer solidarity with him, you never made any effort to affirm his humanity or show the love of Jesus to him in any quantifiable measure.

You violently opposed him at every single turn—without offering a single ounce of the grace you claim as the heart of your faith tradition. You jettisoned Jesus as you dispensed damnation on him.

And yet you give carte blanche to a white Republican man so riddled with depravity, so littered with extramarital affairs, so unapologetically vile, with such a vast resume of moral filth—that the mind boggles.

And the change in you is unmistakable. It has been an astonishing conversion to behold: a being born again.

With him, you suddenly find religion. With him, you’re now willing to offer full absolution. With him, all is forgiven without repentance or admission. With him you’re suddenly able to see some invisible, deeply buried heart. With him, sin has become unimportant, compassion no longer a requirement. With him, you see only Providence.

And White Evangelicals, all those people who have had it with you—they see it all clearly.

They recognize the toxic source of your inconsistency.

They see that pigmentation and party are your sole deities. They see that you aren’t interested in perpetuating the love of God or emulating the heart of Jesus. They see that you aren’t burdened to love the least, or to be agents of compassion, or to care for your Muslim, gay, African, female, or poor neighbors as yourself. They see that all you’re really interested in doing, is making a God in your own ivory image and demanding that the world bow down to it. They recognize this all about white, Republican Jesus—not dark-skinned Jesus of Nazareth.

And I know you don’t realize it, but you’re digging your own grave in these days; the grave of your very faith tradition.

Your willingness to align yourself with cruelty is a costly marriage. Yes, you’ve gained a Supreme Court seat, a few months with the Presidency as a mouthpiece, and the cheap high of temporary power—but you’ve lost a whole lot more.

You’ve lost an audience with millions of wise, decent, good-hearted, faithful people with eyes to see this ugliness.

You’ve lost any moral high ground or spiritual authority with a generation. You’ve lost any semblance of Christlikeness. You’ve lost the plot. And most of all you’ve lost your soul.

I know it’s likely you’ll dismiss these words. The fact that you’ve even made your bed with such malevolence, shows how far gone you are and how insulated you are from the reality in front of you.

But I had to at least try to reach you. It’s what Jesus would do.

Maybe you need to read what he said again—if he still matters to you.

Source:  John Pavlovitz

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Me thinking about an ENTIRE SHOW full of

Caryl filming spoilers

Caryl promotional pictures

Caryl interviews

Caryl speculation

CARYL POSITIVITY

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Stil recycling my old post and reblogging myself... because recycling is important :-)

HAPPY THANKSGIVING CANADIANS!

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A great 10th season to all TWD fans!

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING CANADIANS!

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Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride on stage at Talking Dead 100th Episode Special

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Of all the women who have come forward with sexual assault accusations against him, for some reason Harvey Weinstein has decided that disputing Lupita Nyong’o was really important.

Lupita’s testimony is an important part of the #MeToo discussions. We should all support and believe Lupita.

Please read Lupita’s article about her encounter with Weinstein, here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/opinion/lupita-nyongo-harvey-weinstein.html

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I miss Lafayette. What a loss to the acting community.

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Nelsan Ellis as Lafayette Reynolds in the iconic scene from True Blood 
R.I.P Nelsan

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Kudos to Sense8!

Sense8 is the best drama show I’ve watched in a long time, maybe even ever. Not one bad episode. They have managed to keep it compelling throughout the series. Unlike another show I watch *cough* The Walking Dead *cough* that has gotten so bad in the past few seasons that at this point, I only watch because I feel connected to a few core characters and I want to see what will happen to them.

Sense8 is doing it right: lovable characters, an intriguing villain, suspense, heart, smart writing, consistency, vision from the showrunners and a strong performance from the actors. It’s pretty damn perfect! If you haven’t watched it yet, you’re missing out.

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This warms my heart. 

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Dylan O’Brien is the best thing that came out of Teen Wolf. That kid is talented. I’m glad that he’s getting roles on the big screen. Hopefully, he’ll get more meaty roles than action movie characters (no that there’s anything wrong with that), because he has the talent to play complex characters in compelling storylines.

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Feel like celebrating Canada Day in Ottawa this year?