An audio version of the Bible where all the psalms are sung

“God’s love does not change, but during the time that a man is in sin he is so weak, so foolish, so unloving that he can love neither God nor himself.” Julian of Norwich

“God showed me the very great delight that he has in all men and women who accept, firmly and humbly and reverently, the preaching and teaching of Holy Church, for He is Holy Church.”

Julian of Norwich

Left and right in politics refers to those who support greater equality in society and those who support traditional hierarchies. This goes all the way back to the origin of these terms in the French National Assembly.

All the fundies from my past jerking off to the sound of the war drum.

Someone should make a graphic novel version of Julian of Norwich’s Divine Showings

An interesting passage in David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs

In fact eroticized exploitation, abuse, domination, and violence are in fact normative parts of male heterosexuality—they’re largely constitutive of how men define themselves as men. The big feminist and queer intervention in sexual politics has been to say that this is corrosive and unnecessary.

Reading the psalms feelings like traveling across a country. Mountain and valleys. Lakes and rivers. Gardens and forests.

“I am suggesting that the development of the understanding of the resurrection of the dead and that of creation ex nihilo is a simultaneous development, and that it is the intelligence of the victim that makes it possible.” This was one of my biggest take away from The Joy of Being Wrong

Praying for more general strikes accross the country. The people have the power.

No christian should serve as an ICE officer

Tonight’s film is All Quiet on the Western Front

The Bible is not a manual, or Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth, as some would put it. The Bible is a story. You would not look to one scene in a film or an isolated act in a play to find it’s author’s meaning.

Vinland Saga is the best Christian media I’ve watched since A Hidden Life. The Chosen could never.

A Single Man is not a sad film. It’s a film about joy and grief living together and the victory of a gratitude that has room for them both.

Watched Plainclothes tonight. Loved it. Tom Blyth is very handsome in it. This film got me thinking about a lot of things. Homophobia obviously. Surveillance. The ways in which the world is constantly lying and gets us to go along with the lies. A very satisfying ending tho.

The difference between faith and certainty is that faith is the expectation of surprise and certainty looks for the exclusion of surprise

Being homophobic is so funny. Like why are you mad that I have a boyfriend?

Happy New Year!

We should get rid of managers. What good are they? Get rid of them and allocate managerial responsibilities throughout the workplace.

I think most of the anger at actors in gay roles being straight or not publicly declaring their sexuality comes from people who want to know if they theoretically could have a shot

In him divine love and human love, God's heaven and God's earth, the tomb and eternal life-and so on with all the strange world-pairings of Scripture-are one, and they are so because only as he is the one he is does either term of such pairings subsist in the first place.

Robert Jenson

My therapist has explained to me that this is how parents should be. Forbearing, forgiving guides. Not lords and masters. Not scary or demeaning or controlling. Humble and willing to learn as well.

My boyfriend’s parents loving him and being so kind and generous to me sometimes makes me feel nervous. It’s hard to believe some parents really just want more than anything for their kids to be happy. Parents who are willing to be patient , to listen, to learn, and to change? That’s for the movies.

How strange that some of the most important questions of life and existence are unanswerable or that many mutually opposed answers to such questions are equally plausible. We float over an abyss. Reason cannot save us from it. Only revelation. God must speak into the void.

Into stille nacht

that tiny spark,

the Word, dropped

into kindling flesh,

set afire everything

we thought we knew

about God.

Bonnie Thurston

I dislike the common proverb that forgiveness is not something you do for someone else but something you do for yourself as part of your healing journey. Some things do not heal. What happens to a person who believes that when forgiveness does not heal them?

Rereading ‘The Good Enough Life’ by Avram Alpert. We need a politics centered on achieving a universal basic outcome.