#resource church | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

elbiotipo · 4 months

Text

It's fascinating to me that for our modern (at least on European-influenced societies) thinking, the classical Roman way of life is so familiar. When you read about it, the rethoric of the speeches feels modern, a society based on contracts and laws and litigation, with public works, a state bureucracy and standing army and trade economy and even spectator sports, a concept of philosophy separated from religious dogma and tradition, with even a limited understanding of a government by 'the people' and 'citizenship', even the names all sound familiar even if in completely different contexts, and no wonder since they inspired our current politics.

This all in contrast to medieval feudalism, which is completely alien to me. A society created upon family connections and oaths of fealty and serfdom with no such thing as an overarching state, not even kingdoms were any more real than a title one person holds, and all held together completely, utterly, to an extent I cannot emphasize enough, by the institution of the Church and the Christian faith. In a way we just aren't used today in our secular world. I simply cannot overstate how everything, every single thing, was permeated by faith in the Medieval worldview and the Church which took its power from it, we have an understanding of it but I think people just don't realize it.

#cosas mias #this is a very silly example so bear with me #the other day I was watching some Manor Lords playthroughs #and a guy was complaining his medieval village wasn't growing #it was because no matter all the economic resources it had it didn't have a church #of course that for those people a place without a church is a non-place to start with never mind anything else #(and even the game oversimplifies that)#what I mean by these stupid tags is that we see religion as something private... for them it meant literally EVERYTHING #in a way we don't understand sure we can imagine a city without imagining churches... for someone on the middle ages #a Place was a Place where a Church was

994 notes · View notes

hiseyeisonthesparrow · 1 month

Text

#whenever i bring up race and the priesthood to my dad he tells me a quote he heard from someone Black in the church #i can't remember who it was specifically but i'll ask my dad and update y'all with the reference #but basically it said “tell me ONE GROUP founded in the 1800s that HASN'T had a complicated relationship with race”#like. we are an old church. of course things were different.#and if you actually read the book of mormon it says some very race-positive things #“skin of blackness” is almost certainly metaphorical for example #“Blacks in the Scriptures: Skin Color & Curses (2007)” is a great resource. my dad made us all sit down and watch it when i was real young #https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOFxilaUh3o #sure we have a sordid past. so does literally everyone!!#people should look at the doctrine in the scriptures and not the imperfect teachings of imperfect people in an imperfect world #lds #mormon #lds church #tumblrstake #sparrow squawks #queerstake

141 notes · View notes

drownyououtbleh · 3 months

Text

christian graphics

53 notes · View notes

sexhaver · 6 months

Text

extremely bold words from someone writing a double-digit amount of paragraphs based on provably wrong etymology

#also the sincerity of the person arguing the “devil's advocate” position literally does not matter #if you can't counter their argument then your argument sucks #“communication studies or human resources” That Is The Entire Catholic Church

91 notes · View notes

gladiatorcunt · 4 months

Text

sick of talking stages i need an older man to take look at me and be like “they’re the one” and then boom i have a billion trillion gajillion dollars and a permanent home!

#call me a stray cat if you will atp!#growing up being used to starving will have you considering any way out fr #📜.scrolls #even a trust fund baby would be fine god please i used to go church 5 days a week #what filters do you need to use for them to show up on tinder btw i have to be resourceful

36 notes · View notes

shalom-iamcominghome · 9 months

Text

For every person I unfollow with weird opinions on jews, I follow a few other jews instead. This has been for the better, even if I was bitter about hitting the "unfollow" button at first (sound off if you want to use this post to self-promo)

#jumblr #jew by choice #personal thoughts tag #tired of being let down by people who are otherwise... fine i guess but we are balling regardless #i do want to follow more jews though. my feed is probably between 35-45% dedicated to judaism and education #and i wouldn't mind at all if those numbers would increase. i've been really really trying to broaden my scope #ofc i don't solely use the internet for my resources but it has helped somewhat #especially in establishing SOME sense of community. i live near 4-5 xian churches so you can imaging #and that's within walking distance too!!#also bonus points if you're also queer/trans please i would love to have more queer and trans jewish perspectives

50 notes · View notes

blessedarethebinarybreakers · 4 months

Note

Hi Avery! You may remember me from "my church is going on its RIC journey" several years ago! Covid set us back but we've made some progress with enacting inclusivity in our building, including participation in our city's Pride, officially naming two gender neutral bathrooms (i worked SO hard for this), celebrating RIC Sunday, and slowly starting a Faith and Diversity section in our library!

I wanted to ask though - the affirming committee (which I'm on) wants to include some resources on our church website for brand new allies who may know little to nothing about the LGBTQ+ community! Things like definitions, explanations of pronouns... I wanted to know if you had any advice or suggestions for places I could look, for both super basic resources and ones with a Christian lens!

Thank you so much for all you do!! - Moth

Oh hey, I do remember you; so glad to hear from you again! <3

Thank you for your part in moving your church further into affirmation. I know how frustrating such work can get, especially because it tends to move so slowly; but it is good and holy work, and what you've done and continue to do for your church matters so much.

First, I imagine you're already aware of it but just in case, Reconciling Works has its own webpage of resources, including basic definitions. Definitely makes sense to link some of those!

See this post for my recommendations for some queer Christian resources mostly related to sexuality. One of them, the Queer Grace Encyclopedia, is a database both of basic queer definitions and theology. You'll find a lot of great, simple but well-researched articles on there!

Next, I've got a Google doc masterpost of basic trans stuff, including pronoun practice and how to apologize gracefully when you accidentally misgender someone. I don't recommend passing the whole doc along to your church because Too Many Links gets overwhelming, but if you wander through you can pick out the resources you think they'd find most helpful!

I also have a Google doc of Christian-specific trans stuff; I recommend similarly that you pick out just a few to pass on for the church site. Especially some links from the Transmission Ministry Network :)

Posting this so others can add recommendations!

#chatting tag #resources #church tag

14 notes · View notes

chilope · 1 month

Text

ok. i have a question. this is maybe insane.

i want to do volunteer work focused on homeless outreach (providing resources etc) but the only secular organizations doing this work in my city have limited volunteer hours that dont align with my schedule literally at all. the only options available to me are through church-affiliated groups.

as im sure you can imagine, i dont like churches! i dont want to work with them! and i dont like when homeless outreach comes with a side of evangelism. BUT. is it worthwhile to volunteer anyway? is it better to provide food and resources in the name of christ than not at all?

my gut says yes, but my experience as a person who was on the receiving end of that shit says no... idk! i welcome your thoughts

#obvs i would never volunteer with like. the salvation army #like anything that is directly about 'spreading the gospel' is a hard no #its the middle cases #where the resources are given freely but theres always this sense that like.#theyre doing this to convince you to go to church #you know?

8 notes · View notes

shredsandpatches · 4 months

Text

Fell down an old reviews rabbit hole on my lunch hour and once again am pondering the tendency reviewers have to discuss the Gounod Faust as though Marguerite is being punished by the narrative instead of just the world around her. Like, okay, it's not as clear about that as the source material (and Gounod was a conflicted but observant Catholic, whereas Goethe was not a believer), but. I feel like you see this the most from reviewers who really like the baritone singing Valentin, who is the main voice of traditional morality in both the opera and its source material--but while the operatic version of him isn't as nasty as Goethe's, you know a character is in the wrong when an opera chorus tells him to maybe ease up on the slut-shaming. Slut-shaming is like half of what opera choruses do!

#gounod faust #hot faust summer #faust friday #like yeah it's not goethe but #it's more complex than given credit for as a text #it's more depicting misogyny than misogynist #(i did see one not long ago that tagged the misogyny in the portrayal of marguerite as 'a shallow creature we're supposed to care about'#which is kind of a you problem buddy)#and like the church scene -- the whole POINT is that she feels guilty when she does not have to #idk if that was the point to gounod #but i have always read it that way #and as a catholic girl it rings very very true #the thing she is penitent about at the end isn't sex #it's killing the baby #which at least is something that is actually wrong albeit with a lot of mitigating circumstances #(mental distress no resources no access to abortion)#but the whole point of this character is that she is innocent in a way that is divorced from virginity as a concept

13 notes · View notes

luffik · 2 years

Photo

Free Assets 22 I’ve been poking the MidJourney AI and these are some free assets I created. Since I made them a subscriber you can use these images for anything you please, including commercial projects! (with exception of NFTs and reselling the unedited images in any form since I make them publicly available)! If you use them in your art, I'd love to see / be tagged! If you post work including these background somewhere, a link back to my tumblr or dA is appreciated. Enjoy! Also feel free to suggest themes you’d like to see as free assets next!

Here you will find them in a huge size (4000 px + ):

https://www.deviantart.com/flyingcarpets/gallery?q=f2u