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[spiralingquestions]

Mary Magdalene: The Single Best Argument for Women Priests

On 22 July each year, the Christian community venerates a saint who is the single best argument for why women should be priests: Mary of Magdala, more co...

[divinum-pacis]

A bit abrasive but still an interesting article.

[progressivejudaism]

“I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing.”

— Rabbi Hillel (via wordsthatarenotmine)

[inshallah-khayr]

#GEORGEFLOYD #GEORGEFLOYD #GEORGEFLOYD

[monk-core]

I know this blog is way more political than usual right now- the typical blend of aesthetics and religion will return shortly, but I really don’t want to be silent about the current moment.

I will try to keep the pretty and calming posts consistent as well, since I want to remain a place of peace where you can take a rest and find some encouragement.

If you’re struggling with current events in any way, or just need someone to talk to for any reason, my inbox is always open. Love you all.

[dorknesstolight]

For personal and global reasons maintaining this blog has currently been a struggle, so in the meantime I HIGHLY recommend everyone go follow monk-core

Stay safe and know He is with you

[blessedarethebinarybreakers]

hey…….hey y’all

guess how many viewers are on the church livestream for worship 

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[blessedarethebinarybreakers]

nice

[glumshoe]

people keep recommending Crusader Kings 2 and I have one question: do you have to be Christian

[shadow-daughter]

You do not! But your kingdoms will like you less if you aren’t the majority religion.

[glumshoe]

well they’ll just have to fucking deal with it won’t they…. I mean it worked for Akhenaten

[thefloatingstone]

….it did not work for Akhenaten. 😞 rip

[glumshoe]

RIP to Akhenaten but I’m different

[lionofchaeronea]

The Savior, Henry Ossawa Tanner, ca. 1900-1905

[hymnsofheresy]

indigenous religions need to be acknowledged and treated with respect and so do indigenous sacred lands.

[hymnsofheresy]

fun fact: just because something isn’t sacred to you doesn’t mean it isn’t sacred!

[opulentdoll]

This is a hymn of heresy… if you’re a true Catholic you know the only true religion is Catholicism. It is a sin against the faith to believe otherwise.

[hymnsofheresy]

I’m fucking protestant…

[secifosseluce]

@traditionalhomemaking oi sister, Catholicism preaches decency, kindness and compassion, what about that? 

not to mention that the literal Vicar of Christ has given a formal apology to the indigenous people the faith has hurt (repeatedly and with intention, for centuries) and encouraged them to practice their traditions within Catholicism and to take charge of their roots. here is jan 28, 2019, Pope Francis I, an Argentinian man may I add, himself speaking about young indigenous people retaking back their cultural practices & traditions:

“Return to your culture of origins,” he said. “Take charge of your roots, because from your roots comes the strength to make things grow, flourish and bear fruit. (…) A poet once said that ‘everything that blooms from a tree comes from that which is underground,’ the roots. But roots that grow toward the future, projected toward the future. This is your challenge today.”

if you’re in the faith for the aesthetic, this nice pleasant image of the American Tradition Family that doesn’t speak to anyone but American (white) people and a tiny handful of other privileged communities, then good for you, but don’t spit on other people’s religions –  you don’t get to talk about sins against the faith if you don’t place the well-being, the self-agency, and the dignity of other people before the comfort of your beliefs. 

[opulentdoll]

I understand what you’re saying but Francis is an antipope & anti catholic who is leading the prophesied end times counter church. I pray all of you find the true faith, that is traditional Catholicism. God bless.

[secifosseluce]

so you say you’re catholic…but you refuse papal rule? ma’am -

[valtsv]

i kind of wish i lived in a world where the gods of greek mythology did exist because a system where i could earn favors and avoid being smited for my hubris by simply being too entertaining to be allowed to die is one in which i would thrive

[valtsv]

hades: okay, look, i’ve given it as long as i could, but their time’s up. they have to go.

the other gods: no no no dude you don’t understand. this is the funniest shit i’ve seen in eons. you can’t just kill our court jester bro.

[babywitchlou]

Can I introduce you to Paganism?

[demico-art]

Wholesome + Wholesome = Ineffable.

I love Saint Young Men, and I thought this crossover would look cute <3

[archedplanet]

BUT GUYS THAT IS LIGHT YAGAMI

[geekandmisandry]

@rippledragon linked this to me and a good time is being had.

[saint-batrick]

tell me a pretty thing.

[with-antlers-gleaming-deactivat]

In Uzbek we have this concept of the divine dark, the darkness from which all things came. So there’s this idea that shows up in a lot of our literature that when the world was first made it was like a gentle night, peaceful, quiet and pitch-black. The night is when creation started and the night is when you’re closest to glimpsing what it was like at the very start of the world.

[saint-batrick]

oh wow that's gorgeous.

[crippleprophet]

“Because all oppression is interconnected, a Christianity that continues to center able-bodiedness as a prerequisite to experiencing the divine is a Christianity that fails to acknowledge the disabling impacts of colonialism and the necessity of disability liberation in anti-imperialist work.

Spong repeatedly uses the verb “walk” when discussing how people enter into the divine mystery; as someone who often cannot walk, this language is alienating and implies that my body is a barrier between my spirit and the divine.

Both disability theory and disability theology are vital to revealing the possibility of a relationship with the divine that is uninhibited by ableist historical contexts: I crawl into the mystery of the divine, I limp into the mystery of the divine, I hobble into the mystery of the divine.

I move, dynamic and fluid, flesh and machine and spirit, into the mystery of a divine that is similarly dynamic and fluid, singular and plural, shaped by yet also beyond human restrictions of history and culture and ability.”

—from a paper I wrote for my Engaging the New Testament class

[profanityandprophecy]

This reminds me of the ableism in “Be still, and know I am God.” I have ADHD. I can not “be still”. This implies unstill people can not know God.

And yet, I know this is untrue. My movement can not keep me from God. God can be found in the movement, in the stimming, in the running around & the hyperactivity.

Move, and know I am God. Be who you are, as you are, and Know in your ways, through your ways.

[treethymes]

Many of Miyazaki’s male characters carry a curse of some sort, an expression of internal conflicts: Ashitaka’s toxic arm in Princess Mononoke, Marco’s pig face in Porco Rosso (Kurenai no Buta, 1992), Haku’s magic indenture to Yubaba in Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi, 2001), and Howl’s imprisoned heart in Howl’s Moving Castle (Haoru no ugoku shiro, 2004). These are the most obvious examples, but even the seemingly happy-go-lucky Lupin in Castle of Cagliostro (Rupan Sansei Kariosutoro no shiro, 1979) and the remarkably mature five-year-old Sōsuke in Ponyo (Gake no ue no Ponyo, 2008) bear traces of a gravity unusual for protagonists in movies aimed at a young audience. Although these choices make aesthetic sense in helping to create more intricate and compelling characters, they also suggest a view of the world that goes beyond simple family entertainment.

Curses in Miyazakiworld are not limited to human beings. In one of the more memorable speeches in the blockbuster ecofable Princess Mononoke, the cynical monk Jiko-bō states, “The whole world is under a curse!” The traumatic landscapes of the film support that statement as we see woodlands destroyed, skies shrouded, and the god of the forest brought down with a rifle shot. Spirited Away makes the curse on nature even more specific: the enigmatic character Haku is not actually a human but a river god, and it is his river that is “cursed.” Another river in the film is so polluted that its god has been turned into a “stink spirit,” signifying both spiritual and environmental pollution.

[…]

Even in Miyazakiworld’s most apocalyptic expressions something always endures. In his animations of lost or unreal worlds the director presents catalysts for hope and action, not simply vehicles of escape. In this regard Miyazaki may be said to engage in what theorists David L. Eng and David Kazanjian label “a politics of mourning”—neither passive nor resigned but activist, concentrating on “what remains” rather than “what is lost”: loss motivates more than memorials; it also motivates art. Along with Takahata, Toshio Suzuki, and the dedicated staff at Studio Ghibli, Miyazaki would go on to make films that inspire action when confronting loss, community when dealing with absence, and resuscitation in the face of ruin.

Susan Napier, Miyazakiworld (2018)

[milesmentis]

Look.

Listen.

Sometimes you just gotta open your windows, light a cheap candle, sit in the dark and listen to the sirens go by while you drink shitty alcohol.

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[glumshoe]

I will say that the... Wildest conversation I've had with my dad was explaining that Christianity pre-dated the whole birth of Jesus thing. Somehow, in reading the Bible, he just glossed over the fact that Jesus is exclusively in the new testament. That in fact, the new testament is about the issues he has when trying to further spread Christianity..... IM NOT EVEN RELIGIOUS AND I KNOW THIS! HOW DID HE, A HISPANIC CATHOLIC OF 46 YEARS NOT REALIZE THE LOGIC HERE!

...I mean. I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here? Christianity did not exist pre-Jesus... the Old Testament is essentially just a partial selection of certain older Hebrew scriptures collected and interpreted into one of several Christian narratives. Christianity isn’t just Judaism plus Jesus....