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People of the World: Christian Women II

Part 1 Here

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u kno. lgbt ppl who, despite abuse from religious family members or the church themselves, feel a strong connection to their faith and choose to be active within it are legitimately and genuinely incredibly brave

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“Be present, O Merciful God, and protect us through the hours of this night, so that we who are wearied by the changes and chance of this life may rest in your eternal changelessness; through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

“Keep watch, Dear Lord, with this who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love’s sake.”

Amen

- Compline, The Book of Common Prayer

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Embracing my queerness made me a better Christian, and I mean that in a very literal, concrete sense. I read my Bible more often and get more from it, I live out the gospel better. Embracing my queerness was the thing that truly taught me to love without bounds and it has irreversibly shaped my life and faith for the better. I want non-affirming Christians to gnaw on that for a while.

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youtube to illuminated manuscript converter is down again

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God is no stranger to pain. When you cry to Him, He isn’t looking down on you and saying, “Here we go again.” He’s leaning down, feeling every tear of betrayal, anxiety, and grief that you are crying, and saying “I know. I remember. I know.”

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We've all got that one Tumblr mutual who does NOT play about the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian

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There's a curious but popular notion circulating around the church these days that says God would never stoop to using ancient genre categories to communicate. Speaking to ancient people using their own language, literary structures, and cosmological assumptions would be beneath God, it is said, for only our modern categories of science and history can convey the truth in any meaningful way. In addition to once again prioritizing modern, Western (and often uniquely American) concerns, this notion overlooks one of the most central themes of Scripture itself: God stoops. From walking with Adam and Eve through the garden of Eden, to traveling with the liberated Hebrew slaves in a pillar of cloud and fire, to slipping into flesh and eating, laughing, suffering, healing, weeping, and dying among us as part of humanity, the God of scripture stoops and stoops and stoops and stoops. At the heart of the gospel message is the story of a God who stoops to the point of death on a cross. Dignified or not, believable or not, ours is a God perpetually on bended knee, doing everything it takes to convince stubborn and petulant children that they are seen and loved. It is no more beneath God to speak to us using poetry, proverb, letters, and legend than it is for a mother to read storybooks to her daughter at bedtime. This is who God is. This is what God does.

—Rachel Held Evans, Inspired, p.11-12

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'teenage couple secretly tries to raise God' is the funniest thing I've ever imagined

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sometimes you just find golden tweets like this

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my friend who keeps guinea pigs once found a squealing and abandoned pig in a box in a ditch, took him home and, as was her only right option, named him Moses. Thought you'd enjoy knowing that. Moses spent the rest of his days making friends with his new cohabitants and eating carrots and squeaking about the injustice if not getting MORE carrots.

LOVE MOSES

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so did you guys know that martin luther was obsessed with satans ass. makes sense in a way

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Christianity, 40-60 years after the death of Christ:

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oh to be a chick snuggled underneath your mother hen’s wings (you and i are the chick and God is the hen)