[alongingforgod]

“Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart.”

— John Whittier (1807–1892), American Quaker poet and abolitionist  (via theinwardlight)

[thecryptkeeper]

Rubén Ortiz Torres (Mexican), Corona de espinas (Crown of thorns), 1991. Photolithograph and woodcut. Hammer Museum, UCLA.

[religiousextremist]

The reindeer skin vestments and mammoth bone mitre of Metropolitan Nestor Anisimov of Kamchatka, Russia.

These vestments were made of northern reindeer fur. Take a close look at the pectoral cross and notice how the the cross and the chains are also of reindeerskin.

[nobrashfestivity]

Design for Chancel, First Presbyterian Church, Lake Forest, Illinois Louis C. Tiffany Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company American or Tiffany Studios 1902

[beguines]

Kateryna Kuziv, Mary Magdalene Stood Crying

[iamthefemaleweezy]

Missionary Position II, 1985

Sonia Boyce

[ethersoul]

Dudipatsar lake, Valley of Kaghan (Pakistan)

[beguines]

You asked some time ago what experience of Christ I had that made me think of myself as a Christian. This is one. Once when I was suffering terribly and near death Christ came to me and was not simply near me but was me, in my prayers and in the interactions I had with friends and family and in the very air I breathed. Living and hoping and—this most of all—suffering. I take this to be a fundamental lesson that Christ reveals of God's nature. God experienced and experiences suffering just as we do, from loneliness to grief, from physical pain to death. That traditional notion of God as self-sufficient, some adamantine entity who is concerned for but ultimately impervious to us—I reject this. I'm with Teresa: God’s on this journey with us.

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

[lohengramm20-deactivated2023070]

St. Brendan the Navigator giving Holy Communion to a mermaid

[liefst]

Every day is a miniature house of worship

[bobbole]

Keith Haring, Altarpiece: The Life of Christ

[admaioremdeigloriam]

Mini Prayer Book 1935

I just bought this in an online auction and I have been giddy ever since. It's super tiny and will be well taken care of for years to come.

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos, Chudniv, Ukraine.

June 2018

[speakthewordonly]

the church as im turning the lights off after Mass is my favorite place in the world

[beguines]

Christianity's earliest and most persistent doctrines focus on embodiment. From the Incarnation (the Word made flesh) and Christology (Christ was fully human) to the Eucharist (this is my body, this is my blood), the resurrection of the body, and the church (the body of Christ who is its head), Christianity has been a religion of the body. We relate to God as corporeal bodies, and in our relations with other human bodies, we experience God. It is the recognition of these experiences of God in our bodies (our own and those of others), and the critical reflection on these experiences, that leads us into embodiment theology.

Deborah Creamer, "Toward a Theology That Includes the Human Experience of Disability"

[iamfitzwilliamdarcy]

““Lord, I believe; help my unbelief’… is the most natural and most human and most agonizing prayer in the gospels, and I think it is the foundation prayer of faith.””

— ― Flannery O’Connor (via contrariansoul)

[aevum-meditations]

Calligraphy by Bip Pares (from Evelyn Underhill's book, The Spiritual Life, published 1937).