#religious communities

[gwydionmisha]

The people who called AIDS God’s punishment for gays are helping measles make a comeback

Opinion: Conservative and religious communities that enable the spread of preventible diseases could learn a lot from the queer people they

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As the US sees its highest number of measles cases in decades and vaccination rates fall, researchers are developing drugs to help those who

[galadriel1010]

Help me, Tumblr. You're my only hope

Casting this out into the void, please do reblog: I am looking for any information about women entering religious orders (preferably Anglican, but Catholic also) during the 1930s, especially in the UK and Ireland.

it's for a short story collection where one of the main characters made it as far as Novice before meeting the other MC and finding a life of detective work and lesbianism more rewarding.

[yipyipallyall]

[wonwoonlight]

anyway one of our directors arrived to the office late today because he had meeting outside prior to lunch and when he arrived i was in the meeting room and he was like oOOOOOOOOOOO your hair is purple!!!! so cool!!!! and i'm so happy

[hymnsofheresy]

“Beguines lived in their own homes or in those of friends or relatives. The door of the house displayed a white cross as a mark of indentification. The women wore simple dress and a wide-brimmed hat. In many places they earned their livelihood by manual labor such as baking bread, brewing beer, making candles, spinning, weaving, and sewing in the emerging clothing industry. Other tasks included caring for the sick and dying and burying the dead. Many Beguines also joined togther under the unofficial direction of monks or clerics sympathetic to their aims. There were no community rules and no perpetual or long-term vows.

The unmarried, the married, and widowed lived together in chastity and poverty. Every household developed its own form of spiritual life, prayer, spiritual exercises, and silence.”

Dorothee Soelle | A Silent Cry

[thoughtfulfilm]

Disobedience dir. Sebastian Lelio

[luciaofsyracuse]

“The Councils of Nicaea and Constantinople ensured that Christianity’s distinctive understanding of God would become a permanent and enduring part of Christian tradition. Although Christians were unreservedly and unequivocally monotheistic and believed, along with with Jews, and later Muslims, that there is one God, they understood that God was not a “solitary God,” as one church father put it. This affirmation, that God’s inner life was triune, was a great impetus to Christian thinking and to spiritual life, for it affirmed that the deepest reality is communal.”

— Robert Louis Wilken, The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity