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queer anglican and episcopal blog (26, he/him) [my main is @xanderwithanx] [icon by @ultrainfinitepit] [header is "Agnes" by Konstantin Korobov]

[spiritualinspiration2]

[watchnpray-deactivated20241030]

and blessings on everyone who mourns and cries and screams because they can still feel the world. they did not let it harden them.

[iscariotapologist]

Julian of Norwich, trans. Julia Bolton Holloway

[many-sparrows]

Free Palestine

[quakebeforetheauthorityofgod]

Instead of saying “Guess I’m just lucky”, call it what it really is, “Through God all things are possible”

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

“(…) the God-sized hole in me was so big and vacant, voracious and spacious, it was like I was running some kind of desperate toddler’s shape-sorter game, trying to find something that fit to plug into it. I’d stuff anything in there, regardless of whether the shape coincided with the opening.”

— “Transparent Things, God-Sized Hole“ by Dana Roeser

[godmechanic]

“Same-sex love annoyingly poses the question of what the meaning of desire is in itself, not considered as instrumental to some other process (the peopling of the world); and this immediately brings us up against the possibility not only of pain and humiliation without any clear payoff, but - just as worryingly - of non-functional joy: or, to put it less starkly, joy whose material “production” is an embodied person aware of grace. It puts the question which is also raised for some kinds of moralist by the existence of the clitoris in women; something whose function is joy. lf the creator were quite so instrumentalist in “his” attitude to sexuality, these hints of prodigality and redundancy in the way the whole thing works might cause us to worry about whether he was, after all, in full rational control of it. But if God made us for joy… ?”

Rowan Williams, “The Body’s Grace”

[biglawbear]

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still waters.

He—wait. Why dost the Lord hath clippers.

[biglawbear]

The Lord sheareth me.

[orthodoxadventure]

Икона Ангел Хранитель // Guardian Angel Icon

[cparti-mkiki]

[queerprayers]

Happy Feast of St. Peter & St. Paul! I'm sure they'd love sharing a day

[saintjosephsyndrome]

Pietà (1876) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (details);

[marysmagdalenes]

“Break any rule that makes God look like anything but love.”

— my pastor (via queerly-christian)

[creature-wizard]

If Jesus intended for self-hatred to be part of the religion he taught, he wouldn't have said to love thy neighbor as thyself.

[alexnaszados]

Julian of Norwich: The First Showing oil on carved wood, 2023 9" x 13"

[lifeinpoetry]

Jesus has a tattoo of La Virgen De Guadalupe covering his back. turns out he’s your cousin Jesus from the block. turns out he gets reincarnated every day & no one on Earth cares all that much.

— José Olivarez, from “A Mexican Dreams of Heaven” published in The Adroit Journal

[lilyofthemohawks]

God made the world for us to frolic upon it, literally made it all because he adores us. Creation is literally a love letter.