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Missionary projects serve only to continue colonization and should be treated as such by Christians

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Comment or reblog if you want to be mutuals! I'm always looking for more leftist Christians <3

About me:

❀ she/her

❀ Christian Universalism, Mysticism, and Anglicanism

❀ Queer affirming (side a) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

❀ Pray for Palestine 🇵🇸

❀ Always was, Always will be Indigenous land 🖤💛❤️

❀ Pro-choice

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Reblog if you committed the sin of empathy today

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The person who re-blogged this wants you to know that they are open to questions regarding their spiritual path, witchcraft and faith, and in fact, would love to talk about their spiritual path with you and have a casual talk!!

(this applies to me pspspsps HMU , don't hesitate, i am always open to respectful discussion of our spiritual paths and just being friends!!)

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trinity diagram felt a little overdesigned so I mocked up a simpler version that's easier to understand

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drawn to the blood- sufjan stevens, war pieta- max ginsberg

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Christ and the Woman of Samaria

Artist: William Dyce (Scottish, 1806–1864)

Date: 1860

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Birmingham Museums Trust, London, United Kingdom

Samaritan Woman at the Well

The story of the nameless Samaritan woman at the well, recorded only in the Gospel of John, is a revealing one, full of many truths and powerful lessons for us today. The story of the woman at the well follows on the heels of the account of Jesus’ interaction with Nicodemus, a Pharisee and prominent member of the Jewish Sanhedrin (John 3:1–21). In John 4:4–42 we read about Jesus’ conversation with a lone Samaritan woman who had come to get water from a well (known as Jacob’s well) located about a half mile from the city of Sychar in Samaria.

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Far-right Christians really do the Bible a disservice by treating it as a book God dictated and had wrote down for him. It's a living document, ever evolving just as Christianity has. It's an imperfect work written by imperfect people talking about the perfect God within the context of their time and culture. I really want to make a project out of rereading my Bible and reading it that way.

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Okay uh

@christianawareness is deleting my replies (willful ignorance).

So I'm just going to say my thoughts here.

Even Atheists agree that Jesus was a historical person, the real debate is his status.

The claim that if Jesus was alive today, Christofascists/Christian Nationalists would hate him is very real. After all, Jesus was crucified by this exact type.

Jesus was very feminist, which is why in the past, Christianity was condemned by so many - for bringing gender equality.

Martin Luther King Jr. was Christian.

Jesus taught us to stand up for the oppressed.

We were WARNED about those who are Christian in name only.

From one POC, disabled, queer to another, I don't know what you're trying to do here. You say what you're doing is right, when in reality, you're spreading hateful rhetoric and misinformation. When you're corrected, you just delete the comment.

You're just spreading hate.

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do you believe judas was in love with Jesus? i dont know why, but its such a comforting thought to me.

yes, and i don’t blame judas at all. i mean, who wouldn’t fall in love with jesus? as an apostle you live every day with this man who gets blisters on his feet and who wipes tears from his eyes when he laughs too hard and who sweats and sings off-key and makes silly faces at newborn babies, but then something in him shifts and suddenly the blind gain vision, the flowers crimson and fall open, the dead stand up with hymns in their mouths, the fish can’t change themselves into loaves fast enough, and every time his hands brush yours as he passes the olive oil at supper you realize how much you crave becoming, how you’d turn your heart inside out if it meant he’d call you holy one more time–

i think ‘in love’ doesn’t cover the scope of it. the bond which one shares with divinity is beyond any notion of the romantic, platonic, or familial. judas felt jesus in his blood cells, burning within him the way a star burns, you know? but even as we feel the same burning today, i’m not sure that we believers with two thousand years of a boneless god behind us can really understand what it was like to be able to simply touch divinity. and if judas thought of what they had as like a marriage, if he sometimes pictured himself resting his head on jesus’ shoulder and speaking alone with him among the trees, and even after, when he was stained selfish with silver, if he imagined the kiss, if he imagined the messiah embracing him, well, that’s only natural, isn’t it?

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I wake up -> I seek refuge in God -> I go to bed -> I wake up -> I seek refuge in God -> I go to bed -> I wa-

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Patron Saints for your problems

If you see a problem you're experiencing down below, pray to the associated saint for intercession to aid you. ♥

Insomnia — St. Peter Damian Headaches — St. Teresa of Avila Illness — St. Raphael the Archangel Chronic illness — St. Lidwina Burnout — St. Thomas Aquinas Animal wellness — St. Francis of Assisi Studying / academia — St. Joseph of Cupertino Housing insecurity — St. Benedict Joseph Labre Anxiety / depression — St. Dymphna Desperation / hopelessness — St. Jude Thaddaeus Loneliness — St. Rita of Cascia Gender identity — St. Joan of Arc Fear / insecurity — St. Michael the Archangel Dysfunctional families — St. Eugene de Mazenod Abuse — St. Monica Grief — St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Financial trouble — St. Matthew Lost items — St. Anthony of Padua Travel / motorists — St. Christopher Spiritual oppression — St. Benedict

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Our Lady and Her Outcasts (2023) - Scout M

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Imagine you're a young woman and you're betrothed to a righteous man who's unwilling to expose you to shame and before you leave your father's house (or perhaps the temple) an angel comes to you and hails you as the favored one of God and tells you that you will have a son, and you question him because you are a virgin and intend to remain a virgin, and the angel tells you that the Holy Spirit will overshadow you and tells you that your cousin, who has not been able to conceive for years, is already in her sixth month of pregnancy. So you tell the angel that you want to do whatever God asks of you, and you tell the angel that yes, you will bear this child, and you immediately go to your cousin's house to help her prepare for the baby. And your cousin sees you and she greets you with the words of David welcoming the Ark of the covenant, and tells you that the child leapt in her womb at your coming, and you know that everything God has promised your people is coming to fruition, and He has chosen you to be the mother of the messiah, and you sing the Magnificat. You sing of God fulfilling His promises using the language of the psalms, and you sing of your place in His plan. And imagine an angel comes to your betrothed when he is afraid and tells him to take you into his house because your child was the son of God, and imagine that same angel comes to your husband when your son is in danger and tells him to escape to Egypt, and comes again when it is safe to return home, and imagine the thirty years of the Holy Family. Imagine the years contemplating the face of God, the years listening to His voice and eating dinner with Him, and imagine when you return from the temple and He is not with you, and you are frightened. Because you realize what the prophecy means, that your heart will be pierced with a sword. And imagine that, years later, your husband having died, your son a young man, you are at a wedding, and you hear that there is no more wine. Imagine that you go to your son, and you tell him. And He asks you, "Woman, what is that to you or me? My hour has not yet come," and you know what His hour will be. And you know what that will be to you and Him, you know that this road you set Him on will be agony, you know that you will lose Him. But they have no wine. The groom is here, the wedding feast is waiting, and they have no wine, and so you go to the servants and you speak your last recorded words in the bible. "Do whatever He tells you." And imagine you stood at the foot of the cross, and you heard the Son of God call out to His Father in the words of the psalms, and it was in the accent he learned from you.

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As a Christian, I have the unique reassurance that my God understands what it is to literally be human. Jesus was a human, He experienced pain, hunger, social rejection, and many other pains we face in this fallen world. It's beautiful that God loves us so much He suffered as us. That being said, I am disgusted and outraged at how trans children (and adults) are forced to suffer. I hate this world right now.

I'm legitimately in tears.

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Remember when the big discourse on this site was Jews saying "hey, maybe don't pressure us into celebrating a Christian holiday like, you know, Christmas?" and a bunch of culturally Christian people were furious at them for not wanting to celebrate Christmas and for calling it a Christian holiday

and then the Jewish people responded by calling that reaction an example of cultural Christianity and the cultural Christians who were arguing that everyone should celebrate Christmas got even angrier at that and spawned a whole other discourse?

and how that comes back every December?