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Call me Krissy, please. I'm an over 50 transfeminine genderqueer! Blocking that T since 11/21!! Started E 4/6/2024!! I'm happily married to a lovely quoigender and we have two great adult kids. I'm a minister of the United Church of Christ. Here to offer pastoral care to LGBTQIA folks. Porn bots, fascists, and sugar daddies will be reported and blocked!!

[rev-krissy]

Hi Reverend Krissy, can I ask your opinion on something? When I pray, and I'm thanking God for the day I've been given, for the people in my life, my animals, I begin to worry that I'm being self centered in my prayer for only considering things that affect me personally. How can I do better?

~ Noelle

Noelle,

This is a great question! The biblical record is mixed on this. The psalms are prayers meant to be sung or chanted; many of the ones that aren’t pure “God is so awesome” praise songs are like, ‘WTH God, my life is crappy and you need to fix it!’ Or ‘Our enemies hate you, help us wipe them out in this war…’

But then Jesus teaches us to pray asking for what we need for today, God’s will, and justice. Oh, and for our enemies.

Paul wrote to the churches in his time that they should pray for their political leaders and other asshats!

This song by my friend Rev. Bryan Sirchio has pretty good advice: https://open.spotify.com/track/2vADTg4lapPxDIEKJAh4vK?si=9jf9U7r3QkWyTiBAmiRusA

Me, I always have a list of folks who have asked for prayers; plus all the places where there isn’t justice or peace; plus the environment that we just keep destroying; plus all the people who need food, shelter, love, etc..

One of the great Christian mystics, Meister Eckhart, said that when praying ‘a single, heartfelt "thank you" is enough.’

God can handle whatever you pray because they are a great big God and they understand that we are limited beings. God loves you no matter what!!

Peace,

Pastor Krissy Kate

[sacredheart-stigmata]

i love saying that reciting the pledge of allegiance is against my religion and meaning it with my whole entire heart <3

[sacredheart-stigmata]

so anyways viva cristo rey

[sacredheart-stigmata]

i know i often joke 'haha viva cristo rey!!' all silly like on this blog, but i do mean it. the only king i serve is Christ. i am not called to worship the seat of caesar, to pledge myself to governments who do not uphold my Lord's work. not because i want to create some new, perfect 'christian nation'-- christonationalism is a stain upon Christ's name-- but because i know that He is the One who loves us unmeasurably, who desires inherent, undeniable, and radical equality and equity for all. a government of man cannot give that to me. and while am fairly sure that i will never see my Lord's final work, a heaven on earth of radical love, during my time here on earth, I know it is my duty as a christian and lover of Christ to try to make that heaven on earth as best i can.

i cannot rely on caesar to create that heaven. i will not rely on caesar to create that heaven-- i will lean on my Lord, and try my damnest to live a life pleasing to Him, dedicated to upholding and establishing godly justice.

no king but Christ. viva cristo rey.

[rev-krissy]

Preach IT!!

[butchdykejesuschrist]

You can love your neighbor and not love God, secular people do it all the time, with great success. The reverse however, is not true. If you do not love your neighbor, than you can not love God. Any Christian that would send away the immigrant, the queer, the poor, or the marginalized - would nail Christ to the cross. The Holy spirit dwells in the detention center and prisons, the bath houses and whore houses, the section-8 housing and the homeless shelter, for we are all made in the image of God.

[profanityandprophecy]

@rev-krissy saw this, thought of you. <3

[rev-krissy]

@profanityandprophecy Thank you!! That’s some delicious truth right there!!

[rev-krissy]

Give me Ribbity or give me death!!

[shock]

accepting that you’re objectively weird & owning it is infinitely better than being constantly desperate to appear normal to people who don’t even matter to you

[depsidase]

[profanityandprophecy]

@rev-krissy Your people strike again! :)

[rev-krissy]

Yay!

[burning-sol]

Whenever I see a queer invalidate another queer's relationship with god, I just get disappointed. "We need more complex queers!" You can't even handle religious queer people.

[burning-sol]

If you think that abandoning faith is the only solution to religious traumas, I'm REALLY fucking sorry to say you have a very small worldview. Maybe YOU gain comfort from disowning god, but others will redefine their faith to accommodate their queerness.

It is so incredibly difficult to word how complex faith is, there's a lot I could say.. But I guess to set the record straight, queer religious folk AREN'T your enemy. A queer religious person likely gets treated like shit just like you do, except now you're putting them into a position where they're simultaneously getting shit on by bigoted religious people AND the queer community that's supposedly oh so accepting of them.

This isn't even touching on how tunnel visioned you are that you forget how broad religion is in the first place. You guys DO know that when someone says "god", they might not be referring to the Christian god.. Right?? RIGHT?? (which is implying that major religions like christianity even have consistently AMONGST THEMSELVES like holy fuck they can't even agree on what day you're meant to go to church and what calendar is correct)

Anyways, I guess what I'm trying to say is that I love you Christian queers. I love you Muslim queers. I love you Jewish queers. I love you religious queers that fall outside the abrahamic religions: Taoists, Buddhists, Hindus.. I love you religious queers whose religion is too niche or unappreciated to ever come up. I love you religious queers who have many gods or no gods. I love you indigenous queers.

If you think religion is completely incompatible with queerness then fuck off, this isn't the blog for you.

[3ghosts1bed]

gay rights includes the right to religion

[c4bl3fl4m3]

All this except... if you think religion is completely incompatible with queerness, don't fuck off, please stick around & learn why you're wrong! :)

Religion is as diverse as queerdom, and people are religionbending every day, just like people genderbend. Liberate religion from whatever boxes you've put it in, same as you'd do with gender or sexuality. It doesn't have to be some stuffy institution handed down from on high if you don't want it to be! You can make religion be whatever you want it to be!

Religionfuck, like genderfuck!

(I feel like @rev-krissy would adore this. :) )

[rev-krissy]

Yep, I’m using that. Religionfuck is my new favorite word!

BTW, I’m celebrating the queer with the water jar who led the disciples to the upper room on Thursday. How about you?

[rev-krissy]

I’m loving this new Snapchat filter!

[rev-krissy]

Foxes in Love has offered the perfect daily affirmation for those of us who are under daily attack!

[disabledunitypunk]

I am begging the FDA to require that companies CANNOT just put "spices" as an ingredient but have to label the spices.

"Spices" can mean "this has some oregano and black pepper in it" or it can mean "this has cumin cayenne and paprika and if you eat this you will be sick in bed in pain for a week" for me.

Seriously, this is an allergy issue and a huge oversight on the part of corporations.

Require detailed labeling of spices used in packaged foods NOW.

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

Yeah okay, I'll reblog that!

[autism-official]

I don't even have food allergies and I get annoyed when the ingredients list is vague

[autism-official]

And stereotypical people are just like "why are you worried about it" like wtf is in this what do you mean spice

[rev-krissy]

My spouse is allergic (not deathly, but unpleasant) to rosemary and it is often not listed separately.

[rev-krissy]

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[sonicguillotine-deactivated2025]

Since I’m certain that once again people will ignorantly invoke Martin Luther King to condemn inevitable militant protests in the coming weeks, months and years:

“As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they ask - and rightly so - what about Vietnam? They ask if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.”

“…[In] the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Black poor has worsened over the last few years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality, and humanity. And so in a real sense our nation's summers of riots are caused by our nation's winters of delay. And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again.”

- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

[maidthings]

really something that makes personal growth really hard when you're transfeminine is that there is shockingly little useful feedback for fucking up. You could do something absolutely heinous, or merely make the wrong person uncomfortable by existing, and be met with similar levels of scorn and rejection. How the fuck is a girl supposed to learn from its mistakes when many consider its existence a mistake to begin with.

[rev-krissy]

I know right?!?

[maidthings]

really the big problem with "bigots hate all of us equally" (aside from being demonstrably untrue) is that it posits that the majority of the problems faced by trans women (and trans people in general) come from a small-but-loud bigot class, rather than a widespread systemic failure to regard trans people (and women especially) as people.

This is obviously bad, because failing to understand how oppression works guarantees an inability to do something about it. I think the reason you end up seeing it so often anyways is because it allows one to excuse themself of engaging in this exact behavior, and convince themself that screaming at trans women on the internet is some kind of community-building action, rather than the exercise of power against a vulnerable class that it obviously is.

[rev-krissy]

Yep! Truth!!

[thebibliosphere]

“Fyp” we don’t do that here. I mean, Tumblr the app and website tries, but we don't do that here.

“But then how will anyone see it?” peer review.

“How do you get engagement?” by talking and engaging with other people. Or making a devastating typo. Either way.

“But—” Listen, you’re not doing solo stand up anymore. This is a group improv class being held in a SAW dungeon. Good luck.

[rev-krissy]

💯❗️❗️❗️

[radicalgraff]

"No War but Class War"

Billboard spotted in Inland Empire, California

[wizened-beanie-baby-moved]

"everybody hates me" factoid actually just a statistical error. The average person doesn't hate you, especially not your friends. You, a person who sits in your room experiencing self loathing every day, are an outlier adn should not have been counted.

[fluffylandshark]

[coelii]

This is sweet but I really thought it was going to end with someone named “Haters Horge” who spends every second in a cave halfway across the world just loathing you for no reason and they were the statistical outlier