#sojourners

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

"Walking by faith will cause all of us to recognize that as children of God we are just pilgrims and strangers down here on this earth." - J. Vernon McGee

[mvaljean525]

Ephemeral sojourners take flight alighting in corporeal vessels. labyrinthine quest clocked to one night For searching, surrender and nestle.

Aurora beckons the death of dark As your wings unfurl to full stature. Sniffing the mistral, you set your arc Plotting escape, beware the soul catcher!

----

Graphic - Gianluca (Tenia) Gambino  (B.1986)

[girlrants]

I illustrated Manal Shad, a passionate and brilliant, 14 year old climate activist from Dir, Pakistan for @sojogram, for the spotlight section in their upcoming December issue ✨ It was quite inspiring and refreshing to learn about the young, vivacious Manal, who first came into the global spotlight after getting featured in Oxford Uni alum, Sarah Jehaan Khan’s short documentary titled ‘Passoon’ ‎(پاسون) which means ‘to rise up for a cause’ in Pashto. “Passoon” won first prize at the Girls Impact the World Film Festival in 2020 — the film highlights the work of Manal Shad, a then 12-year-old climate activist speaking about deforestation in a rural, mountainous area of Pakistan. Watching a clip of Manal on social media one is struck with her presence and concern about the environment in her community. “It isn't uncommon for girls to be that vocal in cities like Lahore or Islamabad, but it is relatively rare to see a girl speaking at public forums in areas like Dir where Manal lives and where audiences are almost entirely men.” Manal began speaking out when she noticed that forests in her community were disappearing — loggers were cutting down trees and not replanting. She became concerned that deforestation of surrounding mountains was leading to flooding in towns like hers. “There used to be trees on these mountains, so the soil would absorb most of the water,” Manal says in “Passoon.” “Now they are only absorbing 10% of water. People have always lived in these areas, the issue is with our bad management of resources!” What Manal witnessed in her community is happening across Pakistan. With the highest annual deforestation rate in the world, experts fear that all forest areas in the country could be gone within the next five years. @sojogram - Sojourners is an independent, award-winning print and online magazine of faith, culture and politics, based in the US. Thank you to AD @dontcallme_candy for this great learning opportunity! Watch Passoon here: https://www.facebook.com/mohrpak/videos/230755864864137/ #manalshad #climateactivist #climateaction #climatechange #dir #pakistan #illustration #digitalillustration #digitalart #procreate #sojourners #sojogram (at Dir) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck-jpAUra-9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[breezy-cheezy]

Some dnd stuff I’m gonna throw here….had them for awhile lol. Some Florence! His campaign kinda crashed, but I’m still playing him in collaborative mini sessions with a dear friend and it’s a good time ;;v;; He has a sending stone in his hair~ catch me being indecisive about hair length rip

Annnd some Chainbreakers backstory character drawings….ye. Cam’s sketches of his siblings in his locket, and then something I drew ages ago with Cam and his adoptive family! Xavier (guy who signed literal adoption papers within the year) on the left, Owen (neighbor, edgelord, uncle) on the right~

[sidebeeashley]

Black Rage in an Anti-Black World Is a Spiritual Virtue

Rage is the public cry for black dignity. It becomes the public expression of a theological truth that black lives matter to God.

"Black rage in an anti-black world is a spiritual virtue. Rage shakes us out of our illusion that the world as it is, is what God wants. Rage forces us to deal with the gross system of inequality, exploitation, and disrespect. Rage is the public cry for black dignity. It becomes the public expression of a theological truth that black lives matter to God."

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

The Christmas Comet 46P/Wirtanen photographed as it transverses the sky the night of 12 December 2018 in Bleikvassli, Norway 

(Photo credit: Tommy Eliassen)

+

A Revolutionary Message By Wendell Berry The gospels, and sometimes the epistles, are pretty revolutionary. They propose a revolution of about 180 degrees. Christ was quite explicit, for instance, about his pacifism. You can’t be more explicit than “Love your enemies." He did run those people out of the temple, but he didn’t kill them. People are always talking about the first church. The real first church was that gaggle of people who followed Jesus around. We don’t know anything about them. But he apparently didn’t ask them what creed they subscribed to, or what their sexual preference was, or any of that. He fed them. He healed them. He forgave them. He is clear about sin, but he was also for forgiveness. Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk, something bad happens. If you don’t have an economic practice, you don’t have a practice. Christians conventionally think they’ve done enough when they’ve gone to the store and shopped. But that isn’t an economic life. If you take seriously those passages in the scripture that say that we live by God’s spirit and breath, that we live, move and have our being in God, the implications for the present economy are just devastating. Those passages call for an entirely generous and careful encomic life. We’re a pretty bad species in a lot of ways and in other ways a pretty good one. We can become a warrior civilization and live by piracy; on the other hand, we’re capable of lovingkindness, of genuine affection, of generosity, of friendship, of peaceability, of forgiveness and gratitude…. The serious question is whether you’re going to become a warrior community and live by piracy, by taking what you need from other people. I think the only antidote to that is imagination. You have to develop your imagination to the point that permits sympathy to happen. You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours or the lives of your loved ones or the lives of your neighbors. You have to have at least enough imagination to understand that if you want the benefits of compassion, you must be compassionate. If you want forgiveness you must be forgiving. It’s a difficult business, being human. Sojourners magazine July 2004 [Thank-you Inward Outward] [via “Alive On All Channels”]

[keepingupwithlinmanuel]

The Canonical Tweets of Lin-Manuel Miranda

Back in early 2016, when Barak Obama was still president and the original cast of Hamilton performed every week on Broadway, the show’s creator and star, Lin-Manuel Miranda, was tweeting occasional “gmorning” and “gnight” notes to his followers. Sometimes they were gifs or videos, sometimes pictures of his dog; sometimes they were relevant to his life or the show, and sometimes they were just whatever was on his mind. As the year progressed and times began to feel stranger and bleaker in America, Miranda’s tweets began to follow more of a structure: There’d be a morning tweet, then an evening tweet along the same lines — a reprise, to use the terminology of Miranda’s milieu, musical theatre.

Gmorning we'll get the hang of this yet —Feb. 26, 2016 morning tweet

Gnight gang we'll get the hang of this yet... —Feb. 26, 2016 evening tweet

Gmorning. Pain, joy, frustration, euphoria, everything. It all passes. It all keeps moving. Wherever you are is temporary. Let's go! —Oct. 20, 2016, morning tweet

Gnight. Rage, bliss, fatigue, rapture, everything. It all passes. It all keeps moving. Wherever you are is fleeting. Andiamo. —Oct. 20, 2016, evening tweet

Miranda excels at many things: Writing, composing songs, performing. But it is his ability to create community and camaraderie that most impresses me. Twitter can be a constant stream of righteous indignation, most of which is an entirely appropriate reaction to the injustices of our day. Miranda acknowledges injustice — and famously lashed out against the president for tweeting criticism of Puerto Rico’s mayor after the devastating hurricane in September 2017. But he also creates a place for us on Twitter where we can be comforted, encouraged, and empowered for the work before us. His tweets make us feel like we’re all in this together, that we are seen and loved unconditionally, that we have someone in our corner.

Read the rest here.