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Japanese depictions of Our Lady and Our Lord

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"Christianity is the only major world religion to have as its central focus the suffering and degradation of its God. The crucifixion is so familiar to us, and so moving, that it is hard to realize how unusual it is as an image of God." Churches sometimes offer Christian education classes under the title "Why Did Jesus Have to Die?" This is not really the right question. A better one is, "Why was Jesus crucified?" The emphasis needs to be, not just on the death, but on the manner of the death. To speak of a crucifixion is to speak of a slave's death. We might think of all the slaves in the American colonies who were killed at the whim of an overseer or owner, not to mention those who died on the infamous Middle Passage across the Atlantic. No one remembers their names or individual histories; their stories were thrown away with their bodies. This was the destiny chosen by the Creator and Lord of the universe: the death of a nobody. Thus the Son of God entered into solidarity with the lowest and least of all his creation, the nameless and forgotten, "the offscouring [dregs] of all things" (1 Cor. 4:13).

—Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ (p.75)

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Embracing my queerness made me a better Christian, and I mean that in a very literal, concrete sense. I read my Bible more often and get more from it, I live out the gospel better. Embracing my queerness was the thing that truly taught me to love without bounds and it has irreversibly shaped my life and faith for the better. I want non-affirming Christians to gnaw on that for a while.

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🦢 our lady of sorrows 🕯

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walk with christ!

from letterstojhvh on instagram

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me: make another mistake and i'm leaving also me:

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autism moodboard

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his parliaments on fire and his hands are up

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Is it me or does Jupiter in this also look like calcifer from howls moving castle

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