Quaker-Pizza-Baker

[fiendforfreckles]

My siblings in Christ. Do not use the phrase “I’ll be praying for you” to upset or offend or trigger someone. Do not weaponize prayer to hurt people. Do not weaponize prayer to tell someone you’re better than them.

Praying for your enemies is the definition of a “but when you pray, go to your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret” situation.

Do not be like the hypocrites, who love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on street corners [and on social media] so that others may see them. If you’re telling someone you’re praying for them, it should be spoken only as a message of love and comfort and support.

So if it won’t make them feel loved and comforted and supported, go👏🏻to 👏🏻your 👏🏻inner 👏🏻room 👏🏻

[voidvendetta]

Flailing my arms in the air. QUEER CHRISTIANS EXIST! They don’t have to break down every single part of their story to explain that to you! No we won’t leave our faith and we can’t just “stop being queer”! We love our God and our God is the God of love! Our faith tells us to live that in pride and joy! We’re not brainwashed or crazy! We are real people and we often are smaller communities but we exist happily all over! We are here. We are here!

[andyetheloves]

Reminder: Didn't have the motivation or forgot to pray and pick up your bible? You still have time. Don't feel guilty for being human. Heaven isn't a doctor's office with appointments. God is always open to hearing from you.

[solstice-on-faith-deactivated20]

Not Every Comment Section Is a Pulpit: On Evangelizing Without Consent

I need to say something about those copy-paste TikTok comments that show up on every single video, especially ones that have nothing to do with religion:

“Jesus died on a cross for you. He defeated death, he defeated your sins. He did this for you, and He gave us the Holy Spirit, spread the gospel.”

These comments might come from a place of conviction or genuine care, but intent doesn’t erase impact. And the impact is spammy, intrusive, and disrespectful.

Evangelizing this way isn’t a reflection of Christ’s love. It’s just digital door-to-door preaching without boundaries, posted en masse on content that might be about grief, joy, sexuality, culture, humor, or even trauma. It disrespects the space people have carved out for themselves. It violates consent.

Christianity is not supposed to be forced marketing. Faith is an invitation, not a sales pitch. And quite frankly, if your idea of spreading the gospel involves interrupting vulnerable, unrelated moments with a copy-pasted “call to salvation,” you’re not helping anyone. You’re performing, not connecting.

I’m a person of faith. I believe in the beauty of talking about spirituality and scripture with others. I believe in building community, in deep conversations, in mutual curiosity. I believe in meeting people where they’re at. But those things take trust, time, and consent — not unsolicited paragraphs in the comments of someone’s dance video or makeup tutorial.

So here’s the ask: If you’re a believer, especially one who takes the Great Commission seriously — consider how Jesus actually approached people. With compassion. With stories. With consent. With love. Not force. Not guilt. Not repetition.

Share your faith thoughtfully. But stop flooding TikTok. Please.

[traumacatholic]

I love prayers for enemies that are like "Lord, I know that You want me to pray for my enemies. Help me to actually want to pray for them." There is such a beautiful recognition of how hard it can be, especially when those people might have done such awful things to us in our life. The prayers stand in recognition of our own pain, but also our desire to please God and to try and follow what God commands of us, even when it's hard. Even when we'd rather do anything else. There's a real meeting point of human struggle and heavenly perfection.

[quaker-pizza-baker]

The Good Samaritan story

[library-of-deities]

I like to think that God looks upon his trans children and smiles seeing our creativity.

He smiles as he sees us continue to be who we are despite the hatred of the world.

He sat with us as we picked out our names and was the very first to use them.

He’s patient when we are indecisive because he knows that learning who you are takes a while.

When we just want to scream because we don’t know who we are or who we’ll be, he simply hugs us and smiles, telling us that he knows. He knows who we are and he loves every part.

He looks upon us with pride as we change and grow and heal.

He was there for the very first haircut, the very first outfit we felt comfortable in, he protected us when we came out and will continue to protect those who do. He protects those who aren’t safe to come out, those who are scared and confused.

And when the day came that we looked in the mirror and finally recognized the person looking back at us, he was right with us whispering,

“I told you you would make it. I love you.”

[queerquakers]

For our first post, here's a brief run-down on the Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers!

[rightshewrites]

When the mouth doesn't know exactly what to say, God sees your tears and how you pray.

[quaker-pizza-baker]

Although I hold deep respect for it, I don't really understand the whole idea of "God wants me to be a dentist," or "God wants me to marry this guy." Sometimes when I look to my future, I ask myself, 'Is this really what God wants me to choose?'

God loves creating things. God created the trees, cats, you and me, and all we see. Creating something *with* someone is intimate – your brains smashed together in beautiful ways. Think about creating a painting together, creating a friendship together, or creating a song together. The beauty of the creation is testimony to that intimacy of the creators to each other.

I see a lot of Christians begging God for answers on what career path they should choose, what partner they should choose, or even what they should have for lunch. But I think God wants to collaborate with us. I think God wants us to create ourselves with loving God and loving our neighbor at the center of it. Although God might occasionally suggest a color here and there, I do not think he wants complete creative control. Rather, he wants to be a collaborator with us and create something beautiful with us – that beauty being ourselves.

[religiousextremist]

[gayleviticus]

'gender transition won't make you happy, only Jesus will' is not only an extremely annoying thing to say but i think probably a violation of James 2.16

[pax-romana200]

(⁠´⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠.̫⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠`⁠)

[homoidiotic]

Former and current clergymen discuss transsexualism dated 1971!! Source: Religious Aspects of Transsexualism by the Erickson Educational Foundation (link)

[syro-malabar-baby]

[yuumei-art]

Finally finished 😭 Timelapse at the bottom! I had an idea for my Wings of Pages series, where instead of text, it's a book full of botanical illustrations. The majority of the time was spent on the individual flowers for each feather/page of the wings. I really love the look of old botanical books with the water color paintings and the scientific names written in cursive. So I spent way too many hours painting out 20 of these flower pages, and even then, it wasn't enough for the wings so I did have to duplicate some.

Here are the 20 flowers! The HD image of Atlas Botanicus, and all 20 HD flower studies without watermark will be DMed on Patreon.com/Yuumei on May 5th, along with the hours long video recording of how I painted everything.

[ef-1]

Anyway if nothing else matters then I hope people remember that Pope Francis used his last public address to call for a ceasefire in Gaza and call Israel a terrorist state:

"I continue to receive very serious and painful news from Gaza. Unarmed civilians are subjected to bombings and shootings. It is terrorism."