Every Day I Think About Jesus And The Samaritan Woman At The Well. She Really Said Why Are You Bothering

cant pray my way out of it but i can pray my way through it thats how this works

Christian transphobia is so funny sometimes

Surely no one in the bible ever changes their name and identity to live a more fulfilling life

Praying is not a way to get what you want. Prayer is the extension of your soul into the world and beyond. To pray is to surrender yourself to the mystery of the divine, and to open yourself to a response you may never have anticipated or wanted. Prayer is an act of humility and acknowledgement that we are part of an infinite cycle centred not on us, but on God. We join with the prayers of those who came before us and those who are yet to come. Our prayers live on even when we have ceased to be. In a way, to pray is to become eternal.

sooo when are you dropping the links. to texts about religion and sexuality and transgression

closet devotions by richard rambuss

the man jesus loved by theodore w. jennings, jr

jonathan loved david by tom horner

the sex lives of saints by virginia burrus

toward a theology of eros

i also recommend the essay "gendering jesus crucified" by richard c. trexler that you can find here & richard rambuss' essay "pleasure and devotion: the body of jesus and seventeenth-century religious lyric" in queering the renaissance

Happy Easter

Joan of Arc, pictured in a 1917 hair care manual

Proper Care of the Hair and Scalp, Amant Henry Ohmann-Dumesnil (Saint Louis: University Medical Press, 1917)

Joan of Arc in prayer, by Albert Lynch

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

St Michael the Archangel and St Joan of Arc

I think this is the comfiest my art has ever been. Every time I look at it I want to take a nap