[queermachmir]

“What is it that the child has to teach?

The child naively believes that everything should be fair and everyone should be honest, that only good should prevail, that everybody should have what they want and there should be no pain or sadness. The child believes the world should be perfect and is outraged to discover it is not.

And the child is right.”

— Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

[lezbetheology]

Listen I know it's none of my business but my ~wedding philosophy~ is that they should be simple, egalitarian, and a celebration of you and the community. The community is coming together in a sacred act of support and blessing by witnessing the union.

They should not be 30 grand. Also I feel like it is a little bit a violation of the sacred to not invite children to the wedding. For kids, weddings are a way to participate in a hugely important sacred ritual and share in the weight of communal commitment. For the couple becoming a union it's an opportunity to share your bread and grape juice/metaphorical wine with young kids and bask in the joy they bring.

Childfree weddings communicate that the wedding is not a sacred ritual but instead a show to be preserved of "ruining" by sticky fingers and snotty noses. The ritual is made whole by the entire community but you're saying "it's not a ritual, it's a massive show of how good my life is."

So it feels like it's in bad faith.

[lezbetheology]

More updates on faith. AKA: Quaker thoughts

I went to my first Quaker meeting since the cross country move.

First, I rode my bike and was 20 minutes late because I got horribly lost. Second, it was hot as sin and muggy. I didn't even lock my bike up. So I showed up literally dripping in sweat. I took my back pack and helmet and prescription sunnglasses off and like hopped in the nearest chairs and jammed my eyes shut and just stayed as still as possible for much of the meeting. When someone spoke, I quickly put on my regular prescription glasses. Around this time the fan & ancient AC combo sorta came around; bringing the room to a much more sensible humid 85 (fareinheight).

It just was so natural. The first time I went to a Quaker meeting it was like "ahh. My people." But also "I'm bad at sitting in silence."

But now it's like "ahh. Hello." On the other side of the continent, 20 minutes late, drenched in sweat and it was like coming into a place and space that I didn't remember leaving.

Idk, I was hanging out with the episcopalians for the last year and it was always like being a very comfortable guest in a house with a grand entry way and a double stair case; I always missed my simple bread and plain tea.

[lezbetheology]

Had a suite custom made and when the man who was taking my measurements did my chest he, very tactfully, asked if I would be binding when I wear the suit (I wasn't today).

AND IF THAT ISN'T A FEELING. I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS.

[larkandkatydid]

Some of you used to spend your summers at your grandmas house where the 700 Club was playing in the background at all times, beaming hours of Pat Robertson into your impressionable young brain, and, I cannot stress this enough, it absolutely shows.

[ducissatenebrarum]

Apotropaic, ritual or ‘witches’ marks were carved where air, and therefore witches, could enter a building to protect them from such evil spirits. Although common on doorways, they are most likely to be found around fireplaces. The most common markings are interlocking circles (some carved to create a six-petalled daisy flower effect), concentric circles and intersecting lines creating crosses and M’s representing the Virgin Mary or double V’s for ‘Virgin of Virgins’ #witchcraft #magic

[lezbetheology]

Trigger Warning in notes

[lezbetheology]

les/bianfemi/nists (op of that spend time in women only spaces post) is a terf

I've searched both my main & side blog back through to Christmas and can't find this post? Also the le/bianfemi/nists blog doesn't exist.

This is such an ominous message.

[lovingrot]

[yeshuaspriestess-deactivated202]

Feminist Bible study index (updated)

Introduction

Genesis 1

Genesis 2 Adam and Eve

Genesis 2.5 Introduction on Angelic beings

Genesis 3 The Fall

Genesis 3.1 Eve and the Divine femenine Introduction

Genesis 3.2 Eve and the Divine feminine

Genesis 3.3 Eve and the Divine Feminine The Fall

Genesis 3.4Eve and the Divine Feminine Prediction of Patriarchy and Womens oppression

Genesis 4 Cain and Abel

Genesis 4.1 Cain and Abel: First instance of male violence violeviolviolence

Genesis 4 Cain and Abel

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Genesis 4 Cain and Abel: beginnings of male violence

Genesis 4.1 Curse of Cain

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Genesis 4.2 Cain and Abel: Inner struggle

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Genesis 4.3 : Awân and Azura: Azura

[graveyarddirt]

Women and the Resurrection, by David Hayward

“Easter Monday: AKA The Feast of the Mansplaining of the Resurrection.” – Elizabeth Kaeton

[boykeats]

if you take requests rn, a fallen angel that wishes to be close to god again?

you sit in the last pew, as near to the door as you can manage, just in case. at any moment, the pipes of the organ could contort into unplayable shapes, the pulpit could catch fire, or the hymnal books could transform into frogs: signs from heaven declaring you are not meant to be here. you keep a white-knuckle grip on your bible.

the pastor says, we are all small beings striving for a greater light.

when you shook his hand before the start of service, those last remnants of grace echoing in you understood that he broke his nose four times in bar fights before he decided to put down the bottle and take up the cloth, that he and his wife shared their first kiss under a peach tree ten summers ago, that he will die at sixty five in a car crash, his body a tangle of torn muscles and blood. it is like this every time you touch someone.

the pastor says, we are all trying to make a moving whole out of our fractured pieces.

you look not at your knees, but at the church’s stained glass windows. closest to you: their image of jesus laying his hand upon a dying man. back when you had wings of lightning and a voice that made moonflowers bloom, you and three other angels watched as jesus bit into an apple and spat one of his milk teeth into the grass. you remember how he had run to mary on his unsteady young legs with apple juice all over his dark hands, shouting, mama, look at my mouth!

the pastor says, there is not one of us in here who god does not want to hold close.

in heaven, you sang for centuries on end, heralding the births of a hundred thousand galaxies. but that was before. when you return to your apartment this afternoon, you will put on a large pot of coffee and sing in all the empty rooms knowing that you no longer have to power to perform miracles like shifting tectonic plates or curing your neighbor’s arthritis. you will sing in your new voice, the sound of it as fragile as a thrush learning to take flight, and you will sing to god asking for every shred of redemption you’re allowed to have.

[there-is-still-some-liquor-left]

the only adjectives in the english language:

1. tender

2. feral

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3. horny

[tearlessrain]

for your consideration

[birdtypegirl]

[conquered-gnomes]

Why is Jesus Feral

[birdtypegirl]

- Killed a tree because he was angry that it didn’t give him fruit when it wasn’t fruit season

- Destroyed a bunch of tables and chased the owners with a whip

- Blew up and then acted like he didn’t know nobody (Mark 3:33)

- Yelled at his followers for interrupting his nap to let him know their boat was about to sink

- Healed a blind man by spitting on him

- Explicitly ordered his followers to steal a donkey for him

And that’s just the highlights from Mark.

[lezbetheology]

Jesus: i have come all the way from heaven to let you know that you should love your neighbor and fight oppression.

Us: sorry what?

Jesus: whatever you do to the least if these you do to me.

Us: oh! So you mean we shouldn't have sex before marriage. Cool.

Jesus: do you love me?

Us: yes - that's why we have a rock concert for you.

Jesus: tend my sheep.

Us: so we shouldn't take communion with people we don't agree with?

Jesus: APPARENTLY a lot of seeds will fall on barren ground.

Us: that is why we don't take communion with them.

[lezbetheology]

The fastest way to make me feel comfortable about a job I'm applying for is to find out that my potential future bosses last job is at a school of divinity.

MY PEOPLE ✊.

[figdays]

“Please Please Please” Prayer Candle // dannybrito

[ohmycavalier]

Inktober 2: Purr