Ready to be not ready
and other mysteries of Jesus' wisdom
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/ Devoted to (Acts 2:42)
/ Ready to Go, Ready to Wait
The two-fold readiness of the Christian, discussed here. I’d love your thoughts about this one:
/ Lifted Voice (On the Art and Comfort of Sacred Music)
Brian Hamer is doing some incredible work in his "Lifted Voice” column at Around the Word.
Have a look at these wonderful articles. (I really appreciate the links to the music in the articles.)
Hymns of the Reformation: “Lord, Keep Us Steadfast in Thy Word”
Sacred Music for Child-Loss Month: Music Inspired by the Litany of the Unborn Christ Child
Anniversaries in Sacred Music: Singing the Songs of Zion in Babylon with William Byrd (d. 1623)
/ Preforming Transgender Rage
I’m somewhat hesitant to share this essay, but I think it is helpful as a foundational writing of the Transgender Movement.
It is from 1994, by a Susan Stryker, a man who helped create “Gender Studies.” This is a pro-trans essay, and it discusses the threat of the monstrosity of the Transgender body that rails against the created and natural order. If we’ve ever doubted the Transgenderism is Gnosticism, this essay should put those doubts to bed.
Here, I think, is the these statement of the essay:
Transgender rage is a queer fury, an emotional response to conditions in which it becomes imperative to take up, for the sake of one’s own continued survival as a subject, a set of practices that precipitates one’s exclusion from a naturalized order of existence that seeks to maintain itself as the only possible basis for being a subject. (253)
Here’s the link to the article (be warned that this is disturbing and crude): My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix Performing Transgender Rage
If you’d rather have a digest, I’ve pasted my highlights here.
/ My Favorite Song from the Nacho Libre soundtrack.
Famous movie, famous soundtrack, you know.
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I wasn't going to comment, but I thought I should thank you for posting that Nacho Libre link... lol... that was the favourite "religious" movie of my late husband and mine...oh my gosh, I laugh out loud just reading the name.
And while I'm here, I just want to thank you for coming to Australia. It was wonderful to meet you in Adelaide. Your work means a lot to many people down here.
Thank you for the material you share! I have a lot of thoughts about the other things in this post, but I need caffeine. *silent prayer of thanks for coffee*
I prayed fervently for Jesus to come I was in grade 6 so I wouldnt have to learn long division! He didnt and I did!
Yes we look with interest at unfolding events and being brought up Baptist after 1948 everyone was looking Heavenward and stumbling into everything! The trick is the staying power gifted to us by the Holy Spirit.