When I Say I'm Religious And Christian I Say It Very Tenuously Because It's Not The Kind Of Christian

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)

Christian battle jacket but instead of your favorite bands, it’s patches of your favorite images, saints, and verses

“The goal of the Christian religion is not the idolizing of Christ, not christolatry, but that we all “are in Christ,” as the mystical expression goes, that we have a part in the life of Christ. This savior is a wounded healer, and he heals so that we may become as he is. Be as he is, laugh as he laughs, weep as he weeps. Heal the sick, even those who without knowing it have contracted the great neuroses of our society, who knows no mercy with themselves and their children when they consent to the nuclear state and technologies inimical to life. To feed the hungry means to do away with militarism. To bless the children means to leave the trees standing for them.”

Dorothee Soelle | Theology for Skeptics

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

Living traditions constantly interpret their canonical texts. That is what makes fundamentalism — text without interpretation — an act of violence against tradition. In fact, fundamentalists and today’s atheists share the same approach to texts. They read them directly and literally, ignoring the single most important fact about a sacred text, namely that its meaning is not self-evident. It has a history and an authority of its own. Every religion must guard against a literal reading of its hard texts if it is not to betray God’s deeper purposes.

      — Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l, in The Great Partnership: God, Science and the Search for Meaning

jesus recovering from top surgery

in an alchemical-medical manuscript, germany, 1529

source: Kassel, Universitätsbibliothek, 4° Ms. chem. 82, fol. 25 recto (detail).

Science and religion aren't enemies or "two sides of the same coin" they're girlfriends making out with tongue

in my mind jesus looks like bahaa sultan

in a situationship w God

Gold pendant necklace with icons, decorated with pearls and precious stones. Byzantine, 11th - 12th century with Russian additions made in the 13th century

from The Kremlin Museums