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this is largely a personal archive to save posts about god/faith that've been cluttering my drafts

a bit about me, i'm lena, 22, he/her, genderfluid dyke, leftist. i'm a writer, medstudent, drag artist and several other things but i post about that elsewhere.

i'm weird about god, that's the best way i can define myself right now. agnostic, but also questioning. raised without faith, not even baptised, drawn to christianity but also uncertain, constantly oscillating. probably closest to quakers or unitarians in terms of beliefs??

i'm also very interested in the academical study of the bible. i've been studying ancient greek as an elective at uni for a year now, been working my way through the NRSVue and commentaries, and other books about theology, the history of the bible and christianity and so on

my favourite saint is st. sebastian - big fan, actually, icon photo of guido reni's st. sebastian was taken by me (ditto header)

yeah, that's about it, that's this sideblog i guess

eesirachs

Is it bad I don’t want lent to be over, I’m not sure I’m done feeling this suffering

the resurrection is violent, too

holyandhaunted

interested to see something with Lent coming up:

Will you fast?*

yes, and i'm catholic

no, and i'm catholic

yes, and i'm protestant

no, and i'm protestant

yes, and i am neither (feel free to specify)

no, and i am neither (feel free to specify)

Voting ended onFeb 14

* with fasting i specifically mean anything food related, like not eating for a specific time/duration during the day

#yes* and i'm neither #by the * i mean i will be Partially participating in the traditional food-based fasting #i do have a serious history of ED and the times i have tried to do the full fast - listen. it was easy. it was a little too easy. so #i made it harder and had to make a Sharp left and take the next exit bc it was heading into that territory quickly #i am fasting from other things for the whole of lent though #alcohol this time and maybe sth else #last year it was SH and i managed to stay clean for several months afterwards yay #not a challenge i am up to this year however #oh and by neither i mean i'm a religious person who's Sort Of a christian but not quiiite so technically not a prod #oh and by partially i mean not all the days of lent but definitely ash wednesday and good friday and possibly all wednesdays and fridays #notably i'm also already vegetarian lol #so it's pretty much all time-based for me

many-sparrows

Everybody get gayer and more religious now!!!!!!

selahsworld

Inspired by @two-bees-poetry

There's something in there, probably

#going insane about this actually

restbeyondtheriver

I can’t stop thinking about Elijah sitting underneath the juniper tree & asking God to die. God sent an angel who says, “This journey is too much for you.” & that he must eat. Elijah does, then he rests. He wakes up still feeling hopeless, & the angel repeats himself.

It took Elijah longer than he wanted to get better. Sometimes we want to move but we can’t. Sometimes the journey is too much. It is not a sin to understand your limitations. Start there, get stronger, then get up.

eesirachs

verses that have fit-ness on a protest sign—

"you shall not oppress foreigners, for you know their heart. you yourselves were foreigners in egypt once" (exod 23:9 et. par.)

"you shall not hate in your heart" (lev 19:17)

"you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your needy neighbor" (deut 15:7)

"and all their neighbors aided them" (ezra 1:6)

"fear god—and let them live with you" (the jubilee year, lev 25:36)

"i know you see me" (hagar to the god of her enslavers; gen 16:13)

"for the sake of righteousness" (ps 44:26)

"is this not the fast i have chosen? ... to free the oppressed? to unfasten the yoke?" (is 58:6)

"[heaven to his prophet:] solemnly protest to them—show them the kind of king that shall reign over them" "[the prophet to his people:] you shall scream for relief from the king you have asked for. heaven shall not hear you" (the prophet responding to the people asking for a king; 1 sam 8)

lady-isabella-farnham

Hey guys, check out my impression of Christ our Lord!!! *cares deeply about my fellow man and participates in things that positively affect my community*

wolfythewitch

What do you think god looks like

Everyone I've ever known

beguines

Do I actually believe in the true reality of the resurrection? Did Jesus come back to life?

I don't know. Does it matter?

What I do know is that I would stake my life on it. I believe in mystery and wonder. I believe that systems of murder and oppression do not have the final word. I believe in life, in compost, in the seedling lingering under the snow. I believe in the provocative and dangerous power of resurrection. I believe that resurrection is something we practise with our lives. I believe it looks like justice. I believe it is born of struggle.

Lydia Wylie-Kellerman, "Do I Believe in the Resurrection?", Geez Magazine, Issue 60: Signs of Dawn

so. gave up sh for lent this year. and as the clock was ticking down on good friday, i had guests over and realised i maybe wasn't in a safe headspace, it'd been a tough week. so, i ended up going to my friends' for the night. and now i've made it all the way to easter sunday. 46 days clean. didn't quit before the miracle happened.

#we'll see what comes next. taking it one day at a time. therapy tmrw.#but yk. it's an accomplishment.#giving up sh for lent was. mm. i didn't know what to give up this year so i prayed on it and that came up pretty fast.#and i bristled at the idea immediately #which is how i knew it was what i had to do.#easter #sh twt #queer christian #ish. idk. i'm weird about god and unsure about labels

queerprayers

i will never forget when my grandfather said that the first time he used an electron microscope he knew he was closer to God than he was before, because he was seeing what only a few decades ago only God had been able to see.

queerprayers

i wrote a poem based on this <3

digitalldeath

To Love Another Person Is To See The Face Of God, a very lovely thrift find.

scrawpy

just heard “turns out, shockingly, that you can’t pray away your gay thoughts because you can’t pray away your capacity for love” from a wise Christian queer man on a tiktok comp, and i thought it’d be wise to share

blood-is-the-life

I shared a cigarette with Jesus at a crowded basement show and he told me to tell you I love you

lightoml

1000-silverfish-in-a-hoodie

Christian transphobia is so funny sometimes

Surely no one in the bible ever changes their name and identity to live a more fulfilling life

thebrazenphlegmatic

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