#unitarian

[pinkpetalbee]

[fathernick]

[honeydropsoftea]

Happy belated day of Saint Mary Magdalene. July 22.

I got this necklace years ago (I really like the look of it and it says: a loyal and courageous heart) which is when I discovered Mary Magdalene. She is one of my favorite saints, one close to my heart. She can be controversial as a saint since many frown upon her and her actions, but what always stuck to me was her loving heart, her loyalty (July 22 is also the start of Leo season which I see correlate). She was forgiven because of the love in her heart.

So I remind myself to be gentle with myself when I am in despair, a pit of guilt. Things I have done or regret now, when I feel like the enemy or just useless; I have love in my heart and everyone deserves to be tender with that, with themselves. You are not your past. You are not your mistakes. You are what you make of them and how you look upon them, and you let those chains go. You're forgiven because at the heart and soul of you, you're a good and loving creature among everyone else you forgive too.

Mary Magdalene loved with a relentless, unmoving love. Jesus said: "Many sins are forgiven her, because she has loved very much." In Luke 7:47, it is said "But a person who is forgiven little shows only little love."

Hope, love, peace ♡

[geminiagentgreen]

[cabbagequeen323]

Is Judaism unitarian?

[woadge]

Spoilers for Nimona and TW for Christianity & Catholicism mentions

Heads up: This post contains a lot of Christianity talk, and I know that’s not for everyone, and I also don’t want this to be taken as some attempt at proselytizing; I simply resonated with this reading of the story as a queer Christian myself and I wanted to share. Tl;Dr, Ballister is a Queer Unitarian Christian and we love that for him and the story is about how he and his Genderfluid Satanist daughter destroy the pope and the catholic church together. Here’s a reading of Nimona I haven’t seen yet: While the story of Nimona (the character) is about transphobia and how fascistic and discriminatory governments often are willing to kill entire populations simply to kill “the monster”, Here’s a way I read Nimona as a Transfem Pansexual Christian Anarchist: The story of Knighthood being Christianity, the institute being the organized Catholic church. We see two opposing knights, a black knight (black sheep ref for sure), and a golden one. Both queer, and in this reading, both Christians. Both pushed by the institution and “brainwashed” as Nimona says, into dogmatic belief. The status of being a knight is the allegory for being a Christian. The moment the institution turns their back on one queer, the golden queer turns his back on him as well; he cuts his arm off in the reaction, and spends most of the first half of the movie hunting him to throw him in prison or kill him. The organized religion has actively turned the queer lovers against each other. Throughout the movie, Ballister maintains his knighthood. He maintains his practices, his belief systems, and his desire for honor, justice, etc. At first he tries to justify his hatred of the director but not the institute, and then becomes disillusioned with the organization as a whole, at one point considering abandoning the religion and leaving with Nimona. Nimona tells him, functionally, that he’s a good person. And if he can be a good person and still be a knight, then others can as well. Nimona never encourages him to abandon his core beliefs, even when the organization is very obviously corrupt, because there isn’t anything inherently harmful or even necessarily untrue about his yearning for knighthood; only his reliance on the structure of the state as a means to acquire it. Ballister’s story to me reads as a queer Christian, abandoned by the church and other queers who sought acceptance from said church. He maintains his Christian faith but learns to exist without the structure of the church, even hybridizing many of his beliefs with those of other systems; he even hangs out with someone who is frequently depicted as a monster and a dragon, who has been cast out from the land: Nimona being an allegory here for anything the church considers evil, and to some extent, satanism as a concept (which is not inherently evil even from a Christian standpoint, instead it is hated because it is misunderstood by many). But yea Ballister is Unitarian and we love him and I refuse to read Ballister as a cop like some others might do because Ballister is actually perfect in every way and acab

[prodgermmath]

TFW I go to the Transfem meetup and I realise that all the Ladies there are Unitarians.

[wadesprincessboy]

Me when i finally find a faith that fits my personal beliefs (Unitarian/Omnitheist) but the only UU congregation / church in my country is 9 hours away....oh Auckland how I hate you 😒

[britvarama]

[logankisseswade]

worshipping God in your own way is the only way 🌹🐍🙏❤️✝️

[spokanefavs]

New Unitarian Congregation Forms in Spokane, Home to Nearly 100 Members

Inland Northwest Unitarian Universalist Community - INUUC

"The group spent their first year meeting over Zoom as they worked to get their non-profit status, joined the Unitarian Universalist Association and decided on a name for their new congregation.

They partnered with Westminster United Church of Christ in downtown Spokane, where they held some worship services initially and still use a conference room as an office."

[pinkpetalbee]

[fathernick]

Life is a dream.

God is the dreamer.

God is dreaming about us, what it is like to be us and what we do.

Our ego/personality is just a character god is dreaming.

When our lives end, our true self, God, merely wakes up and returns to being Himself.

So we never really die, we Iive on with, through and in God.

[timmurleyart]

Kris Kringle at First Parish.🎄🎄❄️🎅🏼❄️🎄

[cabbagequeen323]

I'm rereading north and south by Elizabeth Gaskell and it's just such a lovely book. I'm enjoying it in such a different way this time too. Like an adult idk.

I noticed this time that the reasons that Mr. hale had his crisis of faith and left the church are never made clear. I couldn't find hardly anything that talked much about what crises were going on in the Anglican church at that time. The one article that did made the argument that Mr hale had become Unitarian.

As far as I understand, Unitarian theology is that Christ was not God. (I'm happy to be educated if there's more I should know.) I am also intensely curious- how does one turn from Trinitarian theology to Unitarian? It just seems like straight up heresy? And what is the draw? It feels like taking the holy, inexplicable, and beautiful mystery of who God is and trying to derive it into something that is comprehensible to mortals.

If anyone has any input (for, against, tangential) I would love to hear it.

[wadesprincessboy]

Depression is real. But so is God.

Anxiety is real. But so is hope.