You can call me Bean, they/them. mostly christian, little witchy, little buddhist. Lots of posts about religion/spirituality, but also current events and things that make me happy.
Just a reminder my blog is trans inclusive. It’s bi inclusive. It is pan inclusive. It is intersex inclusive. It is ace/asexual inclusive. It is aro/aromantic inclusive. It is queer inclusive.
I don’t support terfs or exclusionists.
If you came here looking for an ally in your bigotry you came to the wrong blog. Go away. You are not welcome here.
We are afraid of religion because it interprets rather than just observes. Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we have allowed to starve.
- Dorothee Soelle, The Inward Road and the Way Back
theyer old enough that they used to connect
They're older than Florida. The Floridian peninsula is the solidified runoff of the Appalachians that got caught on some coral. It's why we're like this, I think. You don't stand a chance of being normal when you were created by the shed skin of an elder god draping itself over a hollow skeleton. You're always going to be a little Off.
Because I'm only seeing other Jews posting about this, non-Jews I need you to be aware that for the past month or two there has been a wave of bomb threats and swattings at synagogues all across the US. They usually do it when services are being livestreamed. I haven't seen a single non-Jew talking about this. High holidays are coming up in a few weeks, which is when most attacks happen against our communities. We're worried, and we need people to know what's happening to us.
sometimes instead of a horrid little monk, divine visions of lesbians dance in my head dispensing wisdom
Our Lady of Grace ✨
A while ago I was talking to my spiritual director and great friend Father Pete and we arrived to the topic of Marian depictions. He made the observation that although it has been theorized Mary’s Assumption happened around the time she may have been from 50 to almost 70 years old, she is rarely depicted in a non-youthful way. Even illustrations of the Assumption have her face be wrinkle-less and… as always… white.
Anyhow, that’s how this Our Lady of Grace came to be. She is definitely not 50, she looks older than that. But I don’t mind. Our Lady is said to have lived perhaps 11 years after the Crucifixion, Death and Ascension of her Son. I wanted to show it: a grown woman, who lived a full Earthly life.
There is always a conversation to be had about the way women’s aging vilified and the role it had to play in all this. But I am not smart enough to write that essay! I’ll leave that to all my theologians and society/culture writer friends here!
‘bread is bad for you’ ‘rice is bad for you’ sorry im not subscribing to the idea that staple grains that have been integral to cultures for centuries are evil. i love you carbs
