#revoice

[kasodaniis]

Happy Halloween! 🦇

[thiefofblood]

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[thearcticflame]

Last day of Mermay and I realized I have 3 mermaid ocs I can draw! Lumi LeGrand the anglerfish, Quinn Tomah the capricorn, and Tasha Callan the lobs-taur.

Lumi is an adopt I got from Koru-ru and used as an rp character in Revoice. They're a deep sea merchant who comes up to the surface for trade, and they've got a great love of jewelry and other shiny things.

Quinn's an old oc. I'm a capricorn, so I wanted to design a capricorn oc, and he's what I made. Simple in design cause I made him over 10 years ago. Might redesign his tail someday.

Tasha is also an rp oc for Revoice, and I created her solely for the purpose of the lobs-taur pun (lobster centaur) lmao. She's actually based on a spiny lobster, which isn't a true lobster as they have no claws. She's an enchanter, imbuing objects with magic by drawing sigils on them.

[skshim]

Another #Revoice done. I am exhausted, as the most sleep I’ve had on any one night is about 4 hours. Average was 2-3. But that exhaustion is worth it, and also, for whatever reason, my body has mutated into being able to function for more than a day with minimal sleep. (A blessing of being in my 30s? Also, I guess I CAN raise a baby.) I am emotional, realizing the strengthening of my friendships and connections are not temporary or 🎶 just a feeling 🎶 but longer term, with permanence. I have teared up more with my goodbyes than on any of the last trips, which says…something. Also, on this trip, there were new connections, most unexpected, all heartwarming. I am concerned over the coming weeks and months, wondering how people will handle the return to reality, how “life be lifin’”. I am hopeful that people will have soft landings, that the burdens of life will not be as weighty, that the joys in the everyday would be more obvious. I am grateful for these people that I’ve met, who are as vibrant and varied as refracted light but come together as a harmonious, unified rainbow. The past year has many firsts, but this trip specifically had my first Korean spa experience as an adult, and I never knew that nakedness could be so safe. (And for the 8 of us, well, there’s no turning back from it either!) Beyond all that, though, I see and feel the beauty in everyone, so unique, but with a solid through line intertwined with our hearts — our history, our hurt, our healing, our hope. I am in awe of my God who started this all one year ago. Who knew that so many “coincidences” would lead to this? I certainly did not; I had more fears than expectations the first time I stepped foot into that Texas church. But taking steps can lead to new adventures, as I’ve learned. I am expectant, excited for the future. There will be ups and downs and sideways moments, and nothing will ever be perfect, but I know that there will be more growth, more healing, more love, more faith. And more grace, always more grace. And more trips my gosh! I am ready, but not ready, to go home. https://www.instagram.com/p/CjiuE2OpWLIeaAXtvpHTYSxTBbk85WAq6Xqphw0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jumbofork]

Do any Side B people on here know why Revoice took down most of their old YouTube videos? There was one talk in particular by Johanna Finnegan about identity that I found especially helpful, both personally and in defending Side B/Revoice to straight Christians, and I’m really disappointed that it’s gone.

[sidebeeashley]

Join us for a conversation with Greg Coles, author of Single, Gay, Christian. We'll talk about his upcoming book, No Longer Strangers (releases Feb. 23), and about how it can encourage all Christians, but particularly those who are gay/same-sex-attracted. Our conversation will end with Q/A involving participants, so don't forget to sign-up today!

Date: Monday, Feb. 22, 2021

Time: 7:30–9 PM (EST)

(link above is to register/sign up)

[wisdomfish]

Resources On LGBTQ+

Audio and Video

Rosaria Butterfield’s Alternative To Revoice

Rosaria Butterfield: From Victim To Guest: Sexuality, Intersectionality, and Hospitality

AGR Audio: Rosaria Butterfield—From Victim To Guest

Heidelcast 135: Calls About Bears, Corporate Repentance, Revoice, FV, And A Poll (UPDATED)

With Presbycast On Same-Sex Attraction, Side B, And Concupiscence

Audio: Bob Godfrey On How Christians Ought To Respond To Same-Sex Marriage

Articles

“Homosexual” And “Homosexuality” In The New Testament

All Welcome. No Exceptions.

Homosexual Desire Is Also Sin

Rosaria Butterfield: Believers Are Not Defined By Their Sins

Revoice, Nashville, And The Therapeutic Revolution

Gagnon: Revoice Is About Self-Affirmation Not Repentance

On Jesus, Assumptions, Temptation, And Speculation

It Was Not So From The Beginning: What Nature And Grace Teach Us About SSA

Gay Christians?

Same-Sex Attraction Is Not A Means of Grace

Therapy, Sin, and Shame

Is Persisting Sin Our Identity And May We Offer It To God?

May Churches In Oregon Be Sued For Refusing To Host LGBTQ Weddings? It Depends

Did God Make Mayor Pete Gay?

They Are Coming For Your Children

Christians To Be Made To Stop Calling Homosexuality Sin?

Presbyterians And Homosexuals Together: The Crisis Of Christ And Culture

The Michael Sam Case: Is Being Homosexual The Same As Being Black?

Rational Responses To Attacks From Advocates Of Homosexual Marriage

The Judgment Of An Apostolic Father On Homosexuality

Foucault: Homosexuality Is A Social Construct

Why Equality is the Wrong Category By Which to Analyze Homosexual Marriage

R. Scott Clark Opposes Homosexual Marriage

All Sins Are Not Alike: Porneia, Chastity, And Wisdom

St Paul’s “Vile Speech”

Paul Cites Homosexual Behavior As Proof of Natural Law

The Theological Roots of Resurgent Homosexuality

American College Of Pediatricians: Children Need Heterosexual Parents

American College of Pediatricians: No One is Born Homosexual

So What? How Does Homosexual Marriage Affect Me?

How to React to Homosexuals in the Congregation?

Natural Law, the Two Kingdoms, and Homosexual Marriage

On Jesus, Assumptions, Temptation, And Speculation

Homosexuality: Untethered From Natural Law

It is Not Heroic To Be A Celibate Homosexual

Bakersfield School Board Member Resigns:What It Means

What Happens After The End Of Nature?

Opposing Same-Sex Marriage Not Like Opposing Inter-Racial Marriage

What Is At Stake In The “Gender” Debate?

Half-Way Down The Slippery Slope

In The Middle Of The Slippery Slope

Pay No Attention To That Slippery Slope Behind The Curtain

It Was A Slippery Slope

If It’s News Is it Still A Slippery Slope?

The Normalization Of Pedophilia Approaches

What The Gay Pride Movement Should Know About God’s Rainbow

What Was A Comedy Sketch Is Now Daily Life In The USA

Why You Should Not Let Hollywood Catechize Your Children

Sympathy for Angus

The Tyranny Of The New State-Religion: Incoherence

Follow The Money: Opponents Of Religious Liberty Spending Large Sums

The World Was Made To Be Known And You Were Made To Know It

PCA Presbytery Objects To ‘Post-Freudian Blather’

A Scholar Talks Honestly About Academic Freedom And The Transgender Phenomenon

Between Pearls And Privatization

Documentary: Chicago BLM Crushes Congregation And Deli Over LGBTQ Agenda

Trueman: A New Pastoral Problem

The Queering Of The Zoomers

[badsidebsuggestions]

hey, what did you think about this Revoice conference?? i'm side B also so i'm extremely curious - but i see some controversy, alleging that the language the leaders here are using elevates sexuality to an inappropriate level of importance? what can you tell us about this?

I’ve been checking out the Revoice YouTube page, listening to the talks, and I don’t think the language superseded the importance of our faith. At all. 

There are folks who preferred using SSA during their talks, and they used that terminology. There are also folks who believe in the importance of using queer language for our missiology to the secular world (and to those who are tempted to fall away from the Church), and they use those, too.

I’m gonna quote a part from Johanna Finnegan’s 2019 talk (the first video uploaded from this years conference) about the theology of the left affirming church vs the theology of the right hyper-conservative church:

The bizarre fixation in some quarters--both Catholic and Reformed--on only talking about the ontological, about our ultimate redeemed reality, seems to me designed to just make it more difficult to talk about the phenomenological, our experiences. I think there’s no good reason why I should not be able to talk about how my fallen experience impinges on myself and my life... We’re simultaneously justified and sinners. It’s destructive to forget or deny that.

...Part of the power and appeal of Revoice is this willingness to be real and talk about it... part of the appeal of Revoice is one same-sex attracted person saying to another, “Hey. I’m trying to follow Jesus with this, too! Here are some things that are tough for me. Here are some things that have helped me. Here are some things I have learned.”

It’s a great talk all on it’s own, about the theology of the Christ and how God’s redemptive salvific work through the suffering of the cross *is* absurd, bizarre, and Not How We Humans Would Do It.

And it’s precisely that beauty of the suffering which calls Side B’ers to speak out about our own suffering, despite how utterly *confounding* it is to the secular, the affirming, and the hyper-conservative.

Because God does not work his salvation through us in ways that are easy, but in ways that seem deliberately hard. And this, too, is a way in which God teaches us to become more like Him--through our suffering.

Jesus chose to save us not through a display of power, but a display of weakness. And it is that very humble, very *vocal* (“Eloi! Eloi! Lama Sabacthani?!”) very *public* weakness, which revealed God’s true power.

I highly recommend checking out it and the others, and forming your own opinions.

But personally, I think they’re speaking to something very true to our faith. Revoice, I think, has gotten something right.