weirdest christian you know

calyx, xe/xem it/its he/we they/we any neos, 27, disabled autistic neurodivergent anarcho-christian with methodist, episcopal, lutheran, and wesleyan aspects. radically affirming of all queer people, as I am a queer Christian myself. deconstructing from Baptist purity culture; sex and sexuality and having any gender that isn't cishet is not a sin. pro palestine, anti state. jesus loved the sexually "immoral", the poor, the disabled, the racial minority, and the queer, get over it. titus 3:4-5, isaiah 56:1-8. the apostle peter was a pan gray ace gray aro

[eesirachs]

I love the faith but i have many problems with the church, how do i deal with the reality of what it has done and continue doing?

let two things be true in one breath: this church is violent. this church is yours

[queerprayers]

new poem for the other firstborn son <3

[eesirachs]

i love god hes like death to me

he's the closure of your life. then he's its openings

[many-sparrows]

“Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister Bodily Death,

from whom no living man can escape.

Woe to those who die in mortal sin.

Blessed are those who will find Your most holy will,

for the second death shall do them no harm.”

— St. Francis of Assisi, The Canticle of the Sun, 13th c

[iscariotapologist]

Julian of Norwich, trans. Julia Bolton Holloway

[eesirachs]

not everything holy hurts

[many-sparrows]

You know what, tell me of the real-life miracles you’ve encountered. Anything from the relics at your parish that ooze oil to God keeping you alive when you didn’t think you could stay. Give me something mystical to hold to.

[iscariotapologist]

favorite disciple?

simon peter

andrew

james son of zebedee

john

philip or bartholomew/nathanael

thomas

simon the zealot or james son of alphaeus

judas iscariot

mary magdalene

matthias

other 👀

results

Voting ended onJul 1

[iscariotapologist]

extended

matthew

junia (and/or andronicus)

priscilla (and/or aquila)

nathanael in his own box

mary of bethany

martha

dorcas

joanna

susanna

phoebe

other

results

Voting ended onJul 2

[givemearmstopraywith]

Dorothee Sölle, "Mysticism, Liberation, and the Names of God: A Feminist Reflection"

[iscariotapologist]

from Renascence by Edna St. Vincent Millay

[iscariotapologist]

now generally speaking i think if you are actually not a cult you don't have to go around on your public facebook page proactively defending yourself against cult allegations

[iscariotapologist]

today in bible study the person reading the passage from romans said "this is like reading dr seuss. this is the letter to whoville" and it nearly reduced me to tears

[iscariotapologist]

[iscariotapologist]

today in church one of the priests referred to trans people as "those who are growing into the gender they were called to be" and i'm kind of enjoying the idea of like....divinely ordained top surgery

[speakthewordonly]

[iscariotapologist]

do you believe* individual consciousness continues after death

yes and i have more or less specific ideas of what the afterlife is

yes but i have no specific concept of what it will be like

yes but in an altered form

no but i believe in some form of afterlife

no and i have no belief in an afterlife

other nuance

idfk 🧘

results

Voting ended onJul 8

*interpret "belief" expansively

[koenji]

Iraqi Jewish heart-shaped Amulet bearing the star of David, flower and star ornaments, inscribed with Sh-ddai שַׁדַּי, one of the names of G-d in Judaism and on the backside the Shema or Shema Yisrael (שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל "Hear, O Israel"), one of the most central and foundational prayers of Judaism dating to the first millennium B.C.E.. Used to ward off evil spirits (שדים shedim), negative energies, or the "evil eye" (עין הרע ʿayin haraʿ) while honoring the belief that true protection comes from G-d. Iraq, 1910. (png)

[tiaochan]

God Speaks to the Soul by Mechthild of Magdeburg, trans. Oliver Davies

[beguines]

I wouldn't even be a religious person were it not for poetry, which has not only repeatedly brought me into contact with an other, but has seemed to demand something of me in its wake—very like Teresa's visions. But poetry remains perpetually open. God moves through art but doesn't get stuck there. I sometimes think he gets stuck in theology—fixed, frozen, and therefore inevitably falsified.

Miroslav Volf and Christian Wiman, Glimmerings: Letters on Faith Between a Poet and a Theologian