#christianiry

[anastpaul]

(via Our Morning Offering – 20 September – Exsultet Orbis! on the Vigil of St Matthew!)

[curlynye-blog]

Religion and Afro-Futurism

Listening to the song “Rockit” by Herbie Hancock it’s crazy how simple music videos and messages could be. The beats were so groovy and I’m sure that beats and music videos like this exist today but with mainstream music becoming more and more similar each and every day finding unique artists is like a diamond in the rough. But it’s also very scary to me on the basis of my religion. Being Christian and experiencing afro-futuristic music like this and Dirty Computer where love is love and we have the freedom to express such love, I find it hard to see myself within this afro-futuristic world. And with a lot of the Christian community talking about how demonic certain types of music, songs, or artists can be, I am wary of branching out and discovering talented artists like Herbie Hancock since I don’t know what they are and who they believe in. Especially when we get into the mindset of transcending not only time but our own physical bodies right. Where we are no longer limited by our flesh and instead become smarter, fast, and more talented by using or becoming robots. Not realizing the dangers and concerns of things that we should be worried about when we try to create things that are bigger and greater than we are. Although we are creative beings who do belong in the future I sometimes worry for us, especially with the wealth gap that is never discussed in Afrofuturism. What about the poor who can’t afford the newest gadgets or the older generation who wants to be more traditional in the way they do things or honestly even the laws that would need to shift and change? But I really enjoyed Herbie’s music and I went on this whole rant about my religion because of the way he expresses his creative vision. In religion or even olden-age poetry, things like birds, skeletons, or even mannequins were portrayed as and seen as evil or a vessel for demonic spirits. And I feel even silly for writing this right now because if someone is not currently in the religion or etc, they just won’t understand. But with Afro-fut there are two sides that are clear to me on how the future can look like. The first side is where anything is possible and the lines of how things should be blurred, and the other side is where it is extremely strict, and we have to follow those strict procedures in order to survive. 

[erisinspace]

Nothing is more loving than the Truth.

Nothing is more truthful than Love.

[iluvmygod4eva-blog]

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So I show this blog to friend Ruth and i quote “go is a wok, you can stir fry in him” CONFUSED…

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[joshbishopreads]

We are in many ways a civilization adrift on the stormy seas of relativism and existentialism. The first 'ism' has robbed us of any transcendent standard against which we can measure our thoughts, our words, and our deeds; the second has emptied our lives of any higher meaning, purpose, and direction. Our compass is broken and the stars obliterated, and we are left with nothing to navigate by but a vague faith in the modern triad of progress, consumerism, and egalitarianism. They are not enough.

Louis Markos in On The Shoulders of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue with Tolkien and Lewis

[thesoundofmyheart]

Christianity begins with an invitation to desire pt.2

Last night my friend was telling me about her heart aches and pains, I guess she’s at the point of her life where she is longing for something, longing for love. And I shared my previous post, “Christianity is an invitation to desire” to her and I’m not sure if she read it or if it sunk in to her. Anyway, I shared it to her, to help her cause I know what’s it like to long for something, to need something and yet be left empty.

As what I have previously mentioned, we all long for something. There is a desire in our hearts that we long to fill.

 More often than not, we shun the feeling away, we try fill our lives with whatever things the world can offer us, things and people included. Divert and distract our selves, keep our schedule tight, use our time for academics, organization work, party the night away, spend time with a “special” someone, keep our selves as busy as possible because somehow it is the only solution to the misery we’re in. At least that’s what I did.

God was my last resort, when He should have been my only solution. I was trying to escape the fact that I need Him only to find myself more lost and needy. I look back and realize that my decisions haven’t been the wisest and I ask myself what I was I doing?! I know I need God but I refuse to go to Him, I was stubborn and foolish, which leads me back to my friend, I don’t want her to make the same mistakes I did.

She knows that she’s longing for love but she’s looking for it in the wrong places. I know I did my part by sharing my post to her and I fervently pray for her to seek the Almighty Father. And I lift her up to God and I am also asking for your prayers for her. 

The Spirit and the Bride say, "Come." And let the one who hears say, "Come." And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price. -Revelation 22:17

[dezz1977]

“ The love of money is the root of all evils' and there are some who, pursuing it, have wandered away from the faith and so given their souls any number of fatal wounds. ”

Jesus