How America’s First Nonbinary Minister Created True Equality in the Newly Born United States
"Nina Sankovitch on “Universal Friend,” the Genderless Messenger of God Who Aimed to Save Lost Souls and Preach Universal Salvation"
I really need to find a new coffee shop.
I've been going to this Christian coffee shop run by a local large-ish ministry in Frisco, TX for a couple years, and I've always liked it primarily because they had good teas and snacks, although I never bothered with their books (dispensational theology, not my thing). They always have plenty of great seating with tables, and the music is quiet and calming. The prices aren't great, but that's everywhere nowadays.
In the past three months or so, I notice more and more the white boomers are congregating here and talking... absolute noise. George Soros this, AOC that, DEI, just an absolute alphabet soup of mindless #conservative dog whistles.
*sigh*
I'm out.
There's another Christian coffee shop in Plano apparently NOT full of idiots, but they don't have too many tables (so no room to sit down with a book and journal and/or laptop, etc.).
I don't honestly care about the religion of the coffee shop (I'd be totally down to chill out at a Sikh or Buddhist coffee shop or anything else), but the atmosphere is important to me. So many coffee shops are really loud, or just terribly corporate (scubrats!)
RE: https://sueden.social/@BlumeEvolution/115951539541292884
Guten Morgen - Tässle Kaffee ☕️?
Das dialogische Lehren bedeutet mir viel, zumal ich von den Studierenden immer wieder Neues lerne.
Sehr ermutigend wächst das Verständnis der psychologischen #Mimesis , ohne die es keine menschliche #Wirtschaft , #Religion , #Demografie oder #Politik gäbe. Entscheidend ist #Mimesis auch für die Wirkung von #Medien , etwa für #Werbung , toxisches Vergleichen, die Entstehung digitaler #Blasen & von KI - #Kokons. 🤔📚🤖
A History of Existential Anxiety
From medieval theology to modern philosophy, dread has long been a guide for living ethically.
By: Livia Gershon
https://daily.jstor.org/a-history-of-existential-anxiety/
Original article:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/44017151?mag=a-history-of-existential-anxiety&seq=1
Kierkegaard, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/46682
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/47157
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Margery+Kempe
What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls (and Why Do They Matter)?
They contained fragments of all of the books of the Old Testament except for the Book of Esther.
https://www.thecollector.com/what-are-dead-sea-scrolls/
The Dead Sea Looking Towards Moab
by David Roberts
evangenitals (evan-gen-i-talz): fundamentalist christians who are constantly interested in what’s in someone else’s pants.
#politics #LGBTQIA #ChristianTaliban #Evangenitals #religion #tyranny
The Nag Hammadi Library & the Recovery of the Lost Gnostic Tradition
"How did the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library influence the modern understanding of Gnosticism and early Christianity?"
https://www.thecollector.com/nag-hammadi-library-gnostic-tradition/
This tiny boxwood peapod (10 cm) was carved in c. 1500 by a North German artist. It opens to reveal little peas, and then those peas open to reveal ten little carved scenes from Genesis. Now housed at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin
https://artifactsmuseumhistory.blogspot.com #woodcarving #wood #art #Germany #religion
The latest from cartoonist Ben Sargent, in our magazine.
Read more from the May / June 2025 issue: https://www.texasobserver.org/issues/may-june-2025/
#education #religion #schools #politics #USpol #Texas #TXlege #comics
Green Islam reframes climate responsibility as a sacred act of community care in Indonesia
As rising seas and vanishing forests remake Indonesia’s landscape, a growing movement rooted in Islam is reshaping climate action as a shared religious and civic duty
#religion #Indonesia #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
The White House wants Americans to pray to an angry god in the hopes that he'll change his mind and stop drowning people, like cavemen desperate to placate an angry volcano.
This is happening instead of funding and supporting the federal agencies that have been evolving responses to floods and other disasters for decades.
And you thought the McRib was gross.
Why Did Celebrity Preacher Aimee Semple McPherson Mysteriously Disappear?
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/aimee-semple-mcpherson-ocean-view-hotel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ2LehsA1dk I don't agree with the title of the video stating the audience member being cocky (he was asking a genuine question), but Hitch is SO badly missed! He called it years ago and it still stands true today. All this foolishness is to do with religion. #hitch #hitchins #hitchslap #christopherhitchens #religion
Nací a finales de mayo, antes del mundial de fútbol de «naranjito 82», y mi primer trabajo fue a los quince años: limpiando vasos en una velá de mi barrio (Pino Montano). Un año más tarde, a los dieciséis, en la Feria de Abril de Sevilla, mientras aprendía a cortar jamón ibérico, ayudaba a los compañeros de la barra del bar y limpiaba las mesas de la caseta. Ese mismo año, exceptuando la semana de la Feria, también estuve como ayudante de unos pintores de edificios, donde adquirí el conocimiento para pintar cualquier tipo de superficie. En eR verano siguiente, a los 17, estaba trabajando en una pizzería como ayudante de pizzaiolo. Además, por seguir con eR apartáo laboral, he estáo realizando diversos trabajos de jardinero, de peón de limpieza (desde cristales a garajes y edificios), de asistente de mantenimiento de edificios, de encargáo de distintos cibercafés, de mozo de almacén, de ceramista + escuRtor + restauráor en la Plaza de España de Sevilla y, también, hornero ceramista en La Cartuja de Sevilla, Pickman SA, y varios trabajos más, pero… estudiando cá vez que podía e intentando aprender otros idiomas, mi aRma, ya q' eR saber nunca ocupa lugar, diçen, pero la peçhá de libros que tengo por eR piso... no te digo ná y, asimismo, te lo digo tó, 
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PS: Mi abuelo paterno decía que, pá llevarse bien (una persona con otras), era preferible no hablar de #fútbol , ni #política , ni #religión y, aún aJíN, son de los temas que más menciono. Mi orientación política es el apartidismo, mi aRma mía, q' es muy distinto a ser apolítico. Mi convicción religiosa es el agnosticismo. Y... Soy de #Sevilla & del #SevillaFC
Comparto y comento muchas #noticias de #actualidad , ya sean de nivel #nacional y/o #international , algunas de #deportes y otras tantas de #cultura ( #arte , #cine, #internet , #libros [ #cienciaficción , #fantasía , #distopía, #polsci , etc], #música , #video
Y... Prefiero a #perretes + que a #gatetes
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Remember, man, that thou art dust.
The earl kneels, the ash of the end is written on his brow.
A captain of ships kneels, to be put in mind of a death in a far port, or at home, or on a rock of the sea.
And the boy that holds cinders for the priest,
His forehead is smeared,
Who wears a coat of fourteen Aprils…
—George Mackay Brown, “Ash Wednesday”
Published in TRAVELLERS (John Murray, 2013)
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #religion #GeorgeMackayBrown #Orkney #AshWednesday
I edited and re-uploaded the first chapter of my Demon fucky story 
It's here if y'all are curious https://taullo.ink/defyingorder/
#writing #demon #demons #wolf #werewolf #werewolves #religion
The IRS Says Churches Can Now Endorse Candidates. That Could Give Texas Pastors More Power Than Ever.
While the IRS move applies across the country, Texas — with more than 200 megachurches — will be the epicenter for pastors and congregations to test out their new influence, one expert said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-churches-endorse-candidates-texas?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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