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Thirty questions about how you read, pray, argue, and suffer — plotted against forty Reformation and Counter-Reformation thinkers, Luther to
Great news there's a Reformation quiz too
Not familiar with Osiander but I have to admit "Lutheran controversialist" sounds like me 😭
They hate me for my womanist theology swag
I got Sebastian Castellio, I've not heard of him before now! Not too surprised at that result, though, given my univeralist leanings. Also my second closest was an anti-Trinitarian T.T
Do you think Jesus just kinda sat in the tomb for a second like mmmmmm nice and cool and dark bc I would
Holy Week dump so far bc I remembered today I used to be a bit of a place for LGBT/queer Christianity and I am still around and religious lollll
I found an amazingly traditional Anglican/Episcopal parish that is tremendously queer in its own right and have had such a wonderful time since I joined last year. I only veiled today for Good Friday (and only wearing the snood underneath that mantilla! Mantilla was too formal so I only took a picture with it and used it to cover my shoulders haha).
I love God and love our tradition so much—I was lucky enough to be raised very religiously so it was nice to remember my childhood all day. Good Fridays were very pious and somber growing up and I remember my mother fasting, which I did today too (and on Ash Wednesday 🫡). There is just such an experience of being dead fucking hungry in the pews that gets you to focus on God, lol. My partner fainted yesterday in the pews bc there was so much incense and kneeling and whatnot, one for the books !!!
Anyway, I spent yesterday and today with my church friends, and one of our parish members has a key to a special Los Angeles garden and showed us around!!! Look at the fruit!!! Tomorrow two of my friends are being confirmed/baptized/first communion and it’s very exciting. Service tomorrow is 2.5 HOURS but I am excited :p I have family coming in for it too, yippee!
It’s so special to go to mass four days in a row and I recommend it if you can find a loving accepting parish that offers this semi-orthodoxy. God loves you and I love you and the world will be filled with our love!!!
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i am alive and writing a lot again! I am around 42k words into a maybe 90k first draft of a historical vampire novel, set broadly in london between 1815-1825. very gross and very historically accurate <3 when i am done i would love to share if anyone is interested in being a beta readers lol
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As bigoted media and government reports of the murder of Renee Good emphasize that the ICE officer who shot her was a "committed, conservative Christian," I want to emphasize that Renee Good was also a Christian, whose faith and values informed her actions.
Like many queer Christians, Renee grappled with her faith in the past, even winning a poetry award in 2020 for a poem exploring issues of faith and science. She'd discarded the bad (the poem mentions getting rid of "the parasitic kind" of bibles) while holding onto her faith's foundation of kindness, community, and love.
Her wife Rebecca Good remembers her thus:
“We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness. Renee lived this belief every day. She is pure love. She is pure joy. She is pure sunshine. Renee was a Christian who knew that all religions teach the same essential truth: We are here to love each other, care for each other, and keep each other safe and whole.”
Like many queer folk in this day and age (and like so many immigrants), Renee Good, her wife, and their son had migrated for "the chance to make a better life" just last year, when they'd moved from a more conservative place (Kansas City, Missouri) to a more progressive one (Minneapolis). But no place is devoid of bigoted violence; it just takes different forms.
Good was murdered within 1 mile of where George Floyd, also a Christian devoted to helping his neighbors break out of cycles of violence, was murdered six years prior.
She is also only one of countless people, largely im/migrants & BIPOC, of many faiths and values who have died at ICE's hands — including Black US citizen Keith Porter, at least 30 detainees in 2025, and at least 4 detainees in these first few weeks of 2026 already.
Every single life is of infinite worth, and violence against im/migrants is just as heinous and needs to be decried just as loudly as violence against citizens. I focus on Good here because this post's purpose is to refuse to allow conservative Christians to control the narrative of what it means to follow Jesus.
My own denomination, the Presbyterian Church (USA), claims Good as one of our own:
Ms. Good was one of us. She was a fellow Presbyterian. Edgewater Presbyterian Church in Illinois remembered her with these words: 'Renee Nicole Good lived out the conviction that every person deserves kindness, regardless of their background. …We mourn a fellow Presbyterian whose quiet smile and creative spirit touched lives from Colorado to Northern Ireland to Minnesota.'
In the PC(USA)'s official statement, which opens by connecting Good's death to Jesus's declaration that "No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends" (John 15:13), Renee Good is placed among "a sacred lineage of faithful witnesses who have risked and lost their lives in defense of human dignity." Among these martyrs are the Rev. Elijah Lovejoy, who was murdered for his opposition to slavery, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
As the Rev. David Black, a PC(USA) pastor in Chicago, put it,
“When Jesus saw evil in the world, he put his body in the way and was tortured and executed by the state because of it. ...Renee’s life and death now stand within the lineage of Christian witness — not as a political slogan or a caricature, but as a summons to the church and to the broader society to see where people are oppressed, and to be present with them not merely in thoughts and prayers but with the presence and solidarity of our whole bodies.”
This "sacred lineage" challenges us to continue the the fight for liberation that they died for. For Renee in particular, her wife Becca tells us that
"We honor her memory by living her values: rejecting hate and choosing compassion, turning away from fear and pursuing peace, refusing division and knowing we must come together to build a world where we all come home safe to the people we love."
Black has experienced ICE's violence firsthand himself:
While protesting at an ICE detention center on September 19, he was shot with pepper balls after quoting Jesus's words to several officers: "Repent and believe the good news, that the Kingdom of God has come near" (Mark 1:15).
Black believes this incident went viral because “people recognize this is actually the consequence of Christian witness in the middle of an empire that calls itself Christian, and yet violently persecutes people who engage in real Bible-based, Jesus-centered Christian witness.”
Rev. Black emphasized that persons of various faiths and no faith have all banded together against ICE in the name of what is right and good. To him, action is more important than creed:
“Jesus never said you all have to be Christians and go to church... He said to do this work in my name, and people are doing that work in real time."
Nor does Jesus tell us we have to have everything figured out, only to show up:
“The good news is the Bible tells us many times that God uses the foolish to shame the wise and the weak to bring down the strong. We can show up in that foolishness and that weakness and know God will move through us more powerfully when we don’t have pretense about knowing what we are doing... [Showing up is] what we are called to do in this moment, particularly Christians of privilege.”
The queer advocacy organization I'm part of, More Light Presbyterians, describes the universal call to show up for im/migrant rights thus:
Together, let us seek to follow the God of the stranger — the God of Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar, of Ruth and Naomi, of Mary, Joseph, and countless other biblical immigrants and refugees.
Let us seek to follow God the stranger, the One who migrated from the heavens to earth, from Bethlehem to Egypt and Nazareth, the immigrant and refugee who was persecuted by local authorities and found a home in a foreign land.
We each have a part to play in ushering in God’s Kin-dom, which has no walls, no borders, no prisons.
Read our full statement here, which ends with a list of many different ways to show up in this struggle.
Detail from "José y María" by Everett Patterson.
So let us pray, in order to prepare ourselves to act:
Justice-bringer, border-shaker, God of the oppressed in every time and place,
With the prophets we cry out, HOW LONG, o God? HOW LONG will wave after wave of evil consume your people, as hateful people claim to act in Your name?
No words can do our grief and our rage justice. So we release our lamentations to Your own Spirit's wordless, ceaseless groaning. We center ourselves not in speech, but in these inspirited bodies You fashioned in Your image. We connect our bodies to Yours, which shouldered Empire's cross.
As Your body, we will rise. As Your body, we will hold fast. As Your body, we will place our bodies in front of those more vulnerable.
Subversive Spirit of the Living God, be our rage, our will, our voice, the ties that bind us together. Enfold us and embolden us for this holiest work of solidarity that risks all things in the name of love.
Amen.
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I gotta say it’s so funny to see people like “middle school me is dying” and “big day for people who USED to be annoying in middle school and etc” like no. You don’t understand. I’m a taxes paying adult and this was the biggest day of the year for me.
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phil’s secret wife and child finding out he’s been cheating on them with that evil twink for 16 years
they really dragged my ass back on tumblr with that one. wow.