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People of the World: Christian Women II

Part 1 Here

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In honor of International Podcast Day, here are some amazing Queer and Christian Podcasts to check out!! (All links are to Spotify, but you can find these on other platforms as well!)

Blessed are the Binary Breakers: A podcast by @queerlychristian

God is Grey: A podcast by Youtuber God is Grey. Although not exclusively about queer Christianity, it is a progressive Christian podcast with some episodes focusing on queerness in the church

No Small Thing: A podcast by Rebel’s own Scott (he/him) and Mace (they/them). Not entirely focused on queer Christianity, but an amazing podcast to listen to some of Beloved’s own creators.

Out Loud: LGBT Stories of Faith: A podcast dedicated to sharing stories from queer Christians. This podcast is primarily focused on queer people of faith from the South.

Queer Christian Conversations: A podcast by @coachyeamah on Instagram. It involves conversations around the specific struggles of queer Christian individuals. 

Queer Christian Family Values: A podcast by @queerchristianfamilyvalues where they dive into different conversations regarding the bible, the world, queerness. It also includes some bible studies.

Queerology: A podcast by Matthias Roberts (he/him), who is a member of Beloved Arise’s board of directors. He is a therapist as well, focusing on sexuality and author of Beyond Shame: Creating A Healthy Sex Life On Your Own Terms.

A Tiny Revolution: A podcast by Kevin Garcia (they/them). They talk to other queer Christians and they talk about their experiences with Christianity, inside and outside of the church.

These are only a few queer Christian podcasts, but some of our personal favorites by people we love!

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Idk how many Episcopalians are on tumblr but affirming LGBT+ people and hail thee festival day am I right folks

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christian witches

disclaimer: none of this is meant to offend anyone, i am a random stranger on the internet, do what you want, yada yada yada

so. there’s definitely been an influx of “christian witch” blogs in my recommended recently, and i have some thoughts about being both christian and a witch, as someone who was… very seriously interested in witchcraft and hellenic polytheism before becoming a christian.

before i start, let me make clear- i am not referring to people who make pacts with spirits and perform ceremonial magic and the like. those people are a) usually educated enough to be respectful and stick to their own religions and b) pretty universally seen as Not Christian (and rarely identify themselves as such).

what i’m talking about is the people who turn Jesus into just another member of their pantheon, who claim to somehow have a foot in both worlds so to say- both Greek gods and YHWH, the Norse pantheon and Jesus- which is just…… inexpressibly disrespectful.

i’m not one for no-true-scotsman arguments, but if you worship someone other than God, you are quite literally not a Christian. you just aren’t. when i became a  Christian, i had to leave my gods behind. that was not an easy decision for me, but i knew what seemed true, and i was right- i am willing to do infinitely more in the name of God than i ever was in the names of Aphrodite or Apollo. 

my point in sharing that is that you don’t get to have both. if you want to be Christian, if you want to call yourself that, you have to fulfill at least the basic requirements. if you want to keep your pagan beliefs, do so- it’s no skin off my nose unless you try and claim deities that aren’t yours to claim.

TL;DR religions come with rules, and words mean things. Jesus is not someone you can toss into your spiritual practice along with Athena. you cannot quote the Bible and also put YHWH level with Set. if you’re respectful about it i could not care less what gods you believe in and choose to follow, but please. stop trying to make practices out of things that are genuinely incompatible.

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if you’re a progressive, queer-affirming christian (especially Catholic), pls reblog so I can find mutuals!!

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me @ God:

here is the thing

*sits on the floor*

*cries*

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From “Episcopal Chuch Memes,” Facebook

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You know what I don't get? Christians and Crosses. Like I get it you believe Jesus died on a Cross but why would you want to wear that? Why would God want you to? Like imagine someone important to you died from being shot, would you decorate your house with guns? Would you wear gun necklaces? Would you feel comfortable seeing other people doing so? Almost celebrating the thing that took the life of someone dear to you? Doesn't make sense does it?

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If you disagree with other theologians, declare them heretics. That’ll show them.

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as i said in yesterday’s post, replacing whitewashed art of Jesus, Mother Mary, and other holy figures with non-whitewashed art is vital to confronting white supremacist beliefs in our theologies. We must unlearn our notions of a white God, of whiteness as God. So here are some of my favorite icons from Kelly Latimore, who seeks in iconography the “re-shaping, re-imagining, and re-wondering” traditional holy images. Image descriptions are included.

“The Trinity,” featuring three figures seated at a low table that has a rainbow tablecloth, a bunch of grapes, and a bundle of wheat on it. All three figures are feminine looking: the first has light red robes and medium brown skin; the middle has deep brown skin and black dreads and dark red robes; the third has green robes, lighter skin, and appears Asian with black hair. All three have golden wings and haloes. The central figure clasps the hands of the other two figures. 

Refugees: La Sagrada Familia - reimagining Mary, Joseph, and the newborn Jesus as contemporary refugees, these haloed figures are Latinx in appearance, wear jeans and have frightened or determined expressions as they walk under a full moon and starlit sky with hills behind them.

See two other icons Latimore has created of the Holy Family as refugees here and here.

La presentación de Cristo en el templo - A modern take on the prophets Anna and Simeon meeting the baby Jesus - a Latina-looking Mary wears jeans and a hoody with the starry blue robes of Our Lady of Guadalupe draped over them; she holds a swaddled sleeping Jesus as an older man and woman smile at him and Joseph, holding a rooster and wearing a t shirt and baseball cap, looks on behind her.

Christ - Swords into Plowshares - An adult Jesus with brown skin, a short black beard and longish hair, and light red robes with a blue apron over them looks earnestly at the viewer while holding a hammer in one hand and a sword over an anvil in the other. The end of the sword is red-hot and curved, as he is beating it into a plowershare. 

Marsha P. Johnson - an icon of a trans rights activist who was at the Stonewall Uprising of 1969; she has rich brown skin, curly brown hair, and smiles at the viewer. She wears a fur coat, a string of pearls and a crucifix, bangles and a ring, a crown of big white and pink flowers, and holds a yellow flower in her hand. Her other hand beckons upward to the upper right corner, where an image of Mary on a starry background wearing green and blue robes and with dark brown skin looks down at Marsha.

Latimore has icons of other contemporary “saints,” including Mahalia Jackson, Mother Jones (”pray for the dead, fight like hell for the living”), the saints of Selma, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Maya Angelou. 

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Me and the squad on our way to be fed to starved lions for being Christian:

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Maybe misusing the name of God isn’t so much about saying the shallow words, “Oh my God,” as it is about using the name of God to justify discrimination, oppression, injustice, racism, slavery, xenophobia, poverty, sexism, islamophobia, ableism, homophobia, war, & the list can go on. 

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Your sexuality is not a sin.

Your gender is not a sin.

Your romantic orientation is not a sin.

Your LGBT+ identity is not a sin.

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God hears the cry of the poor and it is the job of the Church to amplify their cry, not muffle it.