The chasm separating us from those who hurt us, esp ⚪️ evangelicals, is not of our creation so we can’t seal it. We won’t get to wholeness pining for them to come to their senses & cross over.
Southern Baptists affirm expulsion of Rick Warren’s megachurch for ordaining women pastors - The Washington Post
As I’ve previously expressed, Rick Warren is the closest thing we’ve had to Billy Graham. My wife is a licensed and credentialed pastor with the Assemblies of God. This is wrong.
Forgive me father, it’s been a while since my last touch base with #EvenMoreJesus from #EvilTwin brewing!
Dark as night, full bodied and rich rich rich with chocolate and fruit and molasses and dark sugar notes. It coats with a hint of coffee and a perfect bitter after. Lick your lips and savor this religious experience! Truly a favorite!
Experimenting with post-it notes & sharpie. Which colour is best?
"Peter: Lord, when someone has sinned against me, how many times ought I forgive him? Once? Twice? As many as seven times?
What a wild ride today. 15 minutes after I got up, I received a text from my niece, who works at his nursing home, that overnight my dad went home to be with #Jesus.
Even though I wish we'd had more time on this side of the veil, I'm at peace and so happy for him because he is living in joy now. I'll miss him, but when I see him again, it'll be quite the homecoming.
When you follow Jesus, there is no goodbye... only "I'll see you later."
1/ #Jesus is super confusing (at least to poor dimwits like me 😂):
"Anyone who prefers father or mother to me is not worthy of me. Anyone who prefers son or daughter to me is not worthy of me. Anyone who does not take his cross and follow in my footsteps is not worthy of me. Anyone who finds his life will lose it; anyone who loses his life for my sake will find it." (Matthew 10:37-39)
[aka, follow me by abandoning everything you love and living a life of suffering]
“Christian nationalism is an oxymoron. When Jesus was tempted by the devil, one of the things the devil offered was political power. And #Jesus rejected that.”
Texas Plan to Put Chaplains in Public Schools is Latest Move to Inject Christianity
Also up for consideration: Requiring the Ten Commandments be displayed in classrooms and dedicated time for prayer, Bible reading.
So I am a week into my #Zizek#Lacan#Hegel studies, through Zizek's lens. All good. I think Zizek's #philosophy of looking at Hegel through the Lacanian lens is seductive. That said, where I find the lens of Zizek lacking, and I now wish he'd not talk about these 2(3) things any more are:
I was a serious #catholic half my life, seminarian for minute, and an ordained deacon, still, even after I confessed my #atheism. So I get what he is saying. My atheism has never felt the same as #Dawkins or #Hitchens, whom we adore, and Zizek sneers. Slipping through the profound safety net religion and a transcendent, all powerful, personal god into the #existentialism of nothing was terrifying, it was my first experience of the "#real." This is it. This is all there is. The problem is it appears Zizek commits the #fallacy of #reification (if we understand it correctly). Clearly he knows it is #fiction, even if profound from a #psychoanalytic Hegelian #CriticalAnalysis, we get it we really do, but it is not real. The #event is real, and the fiction caused the event, but the fiction is still fiction. There is no God, IOP, that became an atheist. The #story Zizek emphasizes is powerful, the changing of the cosmos when #Jesus on the cross questions Gods love. Good story and that is all. Some RCC positions from recent popes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlBZy_iu0m8 and https://www.romereports.com/en/2021/09/14/full-homily-of-pope-francis-at/
So please, Zizek, can I say stay in your lane where you are brilliant, please.
“In an age when words of fear, retribution and anger dominates the news and fills our ears, words of hope, forgiveness and love seem an idle tale at worst and unbelievable at best. Yet the promise of the Risen Lord is that hope, not fear has the last word. The promise of the Risen Lord is that forgiveness, not retribution has the last word. The promise of the Risen Lord is that love, not anger has the last word.”
When #Jesus referenced swine when he cast demons out of a man and into a herd of them (that then pitched themselves headfirst over a cliff) I didn't realize he meant the #Republican party.
@CharismaticBatman@secularfidelity
Lectio divina is the least spectacular thing ever. It's mostly quietly sitting, reading, and listening.
Sit in a quiet place, and ask God to meet with you. Read a pericope. Wait.
Read it again. Wait.
As you read and as you wait, listen. See if your attention is drawn to an image, a perspective, a theme. Although theme may be too abstract. For me, it's usually something more directly observable.
Read and meditate. Listen expectantly. Allow the scripture to be not an object to be studied for its own sake, but a window through which we look in order to see Christ.
When we make room and listen for his voice, we just may hear him speaking.
(All credit to David Hughes, who years ago wrote what is definitely my favorite Easter tweet, which has been shamelessly stolen verbatim by hundreds ever since.)
One of the things on my to-do list is to post a personal #introduction and today is the day that I will cross that off!
You can call me Sherry. I love to laugh, and am very joyful and fun overall. Wife to one man, mom to one daughter, and grandma. Owner of 2 #parrots and 2 #dogs (1 of which is my #ServiceDog). We live in a 5th wheel in the midst of one of Michigan's Amish communities on a secluded lot in a beautiful area. BA in #music - currently love playing my #Tyros5 and my small #ukulele collection. Use my music to worship #Jesus, am a #Bible believing #Christian living out the Scriptures 24/7 by holding God's hand throughout my life, failing only when I let go. Always aware I am His vessel. “Where the Bible speaks, we speak; where the Bible is silent, we are silent” (Thomas Campbell) is how I deal with most things. A strong conservative politically, I choose to focus instead on the eternal rather than the temporal in my relationships, online and off, and on loving those that God puts in my path, meeting them where THEY are. Love to cook, and eat to minimize the effects of my disabilities as much as I can since 2004. For me that's been #lowcarb and/or #keto and/or #ketovore and/or #carnivore almost exclusively. Been using social media since my #Compuserve and local #BBS days in the 80s, and my interest remains strong to these #Fediverse times because meeting interesting people is such a delight and joy!
Ich halte die #Geschichte ja für absolut unrealistisch, da diese Maria (die fremd ging) und der Joseph (der naiv leichtgläubig ist) für ihr #Kind sofort einen #Krippenplatz gefunden haben 🙃