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Christians of Tumblr, were you allowed to read Harry Potter as a kid?
Yes.
No, but I was allowed to read other fantasy books.
No, and I was not allowed to read any other fantasy books.
Other Answer
Not Christian, just want to see the results.
Feel free to add your denomination; whether you were homeschooled, public schooled, or private schooled; if you ended up reading them at some point down the road.
smoke lingering. the last candle snuffed out. my heart crumbled to ash. one step. in my soul echos the final alleluia.
the Lenten journey begins
Christians of Tumblr, did you attend (or are you currently attending) a Christian university, college, or trade school??
Yes, one affiliated with my denomination.
Yes, one affiliated with another denomination.
Yes, one not affiliated with any denomination.
No, I am attending a public university or college.
No, I am attending a non-religious private university or college.
No, I am attending a non-religious trade school.
No, I decided not to go to college or a trade school.
My college/university/trade school is affiliated with another religion.
Other Answer
Not Christian, Just Want To See Results
I'm curious to see what the stats are.
"Lent is not about having your best life now."
In a culture that increasingly prizes positivity and hope, what is the purpose of a period that mandates self-denial and despair?
I may disagree that Lent is necessarily a time of despair, but this was a very thoughtful piece.
The death he [Jesus] died reflects a selfishness so extreme that by it I was divorced from God and life and light completely: I raised my self higher than God! But because the Lord God is the only true God, my pride did no more, in the end, than to condemn this false God of my self to death. For God will be God, and all the false gods will fall before him. So that's what I see reflected in the mirror of Christ's crucifixion: my death. My rightful punishment. My sin and its just consequence. Me. And precisely because it is so accurate, the sight is nearly intolerable. Nevertheless I will not avoid this mirror! No, I will carefully rehearse, again this year, the passion of my Jesus--with courage, with clarity and faith; for this is the mirror of dangerous grace, purging more purely than any other. For this one is not made of glass and silver, nor of fallen flesh only. This mirror is made of righteous flesh and of divinity, both--and this one loves me absolutely [...] He took that sin away. The mirror is not passive only, showing what is; it is active. creating new things to be. It shows me a new me behind the shadow of a sinner. For when I gaze at his crucifixion, I see my death indeed--but my death done!
Walter Wangerin Jr., "In Mirrors" from Reliving the Passion.
