#ch: mason

[jacobsullivan]

closed starter for @masonxmahir Jamie & Mason on top of Lunar Cove's water tower watching the Northern Lights 🥺 💫

Nature always made him feel small. No matter how big his problems, everything faded away when Jamie just stopped to appreciate the world around him. One of his favorite things about being a witch was the deep connection to their world, to each other. He thought it allowed him to live deeper, and to experience more than others could ever dream. Tonight's magical display an example of what he and Mason saw every day. An oil slick of purple and cerulean hues danced across the sky. Earth was showing them her aura, he thought, and it was beautiful. Breathtakingly so. Jamie didn't speak for some time, choosing to appreciate in silence what felt like a gift.

When he did, it was simply to say, "Why can't life always be this way?" Peaceful, a rarity as they seemed to be approaching the end of days. "I'd never come down." Some days he still wished to hide away. In his house, a top the tower, and a hundred miles away from here; the worst of the three. Jamie felt a sense of responsibility. A duty to his family, to his friends and community, to help return peace to Lunar Cove.

[marley-rose]

i'm so happy to see you being so open about getting help, seriously, that's so awesome. congrats on feeling better.

Okay, um. Hello. I know I've been pretty MIA this past year, and I'm really sorry to all the friends and my family who I've been neglecting. It's been a very hard time for me, but there's some good news. I recently got a therapist, and she's helped me understand I need people in my life, not just birds.

So I'm putting myself out there again. Hello to new friends and old, I promise I'll be better.

[tabrettbethells]

[lammienade]

[blairwaldcrf]

ENGLISH TEACHER 1X04 "School Safety"

[blaineshq]

blaine: sounds good! blaine: i was afraid you were gonna say that. that's a shame. blaine: i think rachel has good intentions, but i also know that her methods can be less than ideal and that she can be a little... intense. so i understand your decision and in the end, you've got to do what feels best for you, of course. please know that we'll miss you, though. blaine: ha, i totally get that! we don't want to stir the pot too much. please do keep me in the loop, though!

mason: perfect, we can circle back to it then. mason: i think it's pretty permanent... mason: i've given schue years of my life at this point, and rachel berry is not the savior or leader of the glee club she believes herself to be. and it's been really nice this week not to have to stress over anything that is going on in the death spiral that is the new directions. mason: ha. i might've rocked the boat enough for one month, but who knows what the future has in store. i'll keep you in the loop though for sure

[maddennfl86]

🎶 I came to flex, look in the mirror

[3rdeyeblaque]

Today we venerate Ancestor Bishop C.H. Mason on his 157th birthday 🎉

Bishop C.H. Mason founded the Church of God in Christ (COGIC), THE largest Black American pentecostal church in the U.S. In doing so, he preserved and cultivated the religious culturesof our Afrikan ancestors while fighting for ourreligious freedom of expression and integration in the church house.

Brother Mason born to former slaves in Shelby County, TN. Due to his family's impoverished status, young Mason worked as a sharecropper and did not receive a formal education. Yet he still learned how to read and write. As a child, Mason was greatly influenced by the religion of his parents and other former slaves. He admired their prayer rituals, spontaneous singing, & shouting. At age 12, he embraced the Afro-Baptist faith and was later baptized in his older brother’s church.

In 1895, Brother Mason met Charles Price Jones, a popular Baptist preacher from Mississippi. Mason and Jones started preaching the doctrine of holiness and sanctification together in local Baptist churches, which led to their expulsion from the Baptist & Methodist churches. They, and others, established the Church of God and Church of Christ. Their movement consisted of both Black and White folk were grossly dissatisfied with mainstream denominations. From COGIC’s inception, Brother Mason ordained and allowed whites to join his denomination. He dreamed of an integrated church and believed that all races were entitled to equal rights and authority therein. Their principal belief was that being sanctified was an internal experience that resulted in external changes within individuals & their communities. They taught their followers to seek higher spiritual development and encouraged them to rekindle the dynamism of "slave religion".

In 1897, Brother Mason established St. Paul COGIC in an old cotton gin located in Lexington, Mississippi. He then started using the name “Church of God in Christ”, because, "God told him that if he used that name it would cause people to follow him". By 1904, Brother Mason established pastoring 4 churches: St. Paul in Lexington, Saints Home and Dyson Street in Memphis, and a COGIC church in Conway, AR.

In 1907, he attended an interracial service in Los Angeles, CA. After which, he declared that he'd experienced a spiritual metamorphosis and that he now believed in speaking in tongues. This is what spurred Jones and others to excommunicate him from their Holiness association. This ultimately led to Brother Mason and Jones’s 12yr partnership ending over theological differences, rights to church properties, ecclesiastical power, and the COGIC name itself. After 3 years of legal battles, in 1911, Mason’s legal victories catapulted him into historical prominence and placed COGIC in the Mid-South’s religious pantheon.

Brother Mason was also an outspoken conscientious objector. He was arrested in 1918 and probed by the FBI for teaching pacifism and encouraging Brothas to refuse being drafted into WW I and II.

By the early 20th century, the Black Christian middle class frowned upon any & everything associated with Mother Africa. They believed shouting, dancing, & especially speaking in tongues, were shameful & hindered Black progress. Defiantly, Brother bMason encouraged his followers to embrace their Afrikan heritage and gave them space to express themselves in church. He allowed the working classes to dance shout, testify, speak in tongues, string musical instruments, & sing gospel. His preservation of the Afrikan heritage, freedom of religious expression, & leadership spearheaded COGIC’s astronomical growth.

In the 1920s, COGIC had 30K members &, as a result of the Great Migration, 68.7% percent worshiped in urban cities. By the 1930s, COGIC was an urban phenomenon. During the Great Depression, Brother Mason’s churches fed and clothed poor Whites and Black Peoples across Memphis

Today, it has an estimated 6.5 million members and 12,000 congregations. COGIC is the largest African American denomination in the United States, with eight million members worldwide.

We pour libations & give him💐 today as we celebrate him for his passion & commitment to the preservation & cultivation of our Central/West Afrikan cosmologies, cultures, & belief systems via our religious of expression.

‼️Note: offering suggestions are just that & strictly for veneration purposes only. Never attempt to conjure up any spirit or entity without proper divination/Mediumship counsel.‼️

Offering suggestions: COGIC bible/prayer offerings, water libations, gospel songs of praise/dance

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[thousand-winters]

"His frown gets deeper and he stops walking abruptly, looking around him with a critical eye, to the same houses he passes every day and the same ratty sign of a bookstore that hasn’t opened ever since the Day of Unity; this makes absolutely no sense, he’s been walking for long enough to be well on his way down the middle of the road to his house and then some, he’s sure. Was he really that lost in his thoughts?

He takes a hasty turn on the corner of the next street, as he always does, ready to welcome the sight of the vines that decorate the outside wall of one of the houses and that he uses as one of the small marks that he’s going the right way and he stops on his tracks.

A closed bookstore. A sign that has seen better days. He has to move. Now."

 Dadrius week, day 3: Coven Heads

Hosted by @sergeantsporks

[gabbysdawsons]

BREATHE ➣ mason buckley + liena riley

+ @lucys-chen

gif cred: x,

[whispercddesires]

[stelstellakidd]

random gifsets ⮂ mason & liena ⮂ breathe

@claryxjackson ‘s mason buckley

gif credit: @maurawrites @zvlda @tessgifs

[goldenairwrites]

JEANINE MASON for Stand Up To Cancer December 2022

[pain-is-too-tired]

Holding these blorbos so carefully in my hands as if I'm not the one who just threw them against a wall

[tabrettbethells]

[blairwaldcrf]

ENGLISH TEACHER 1X04 "School Safety"