PCA says the civil power can call on you to fast. Also Sessions

A piece from the "Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death".

The English Civil War, regardless of which side, was the manliest age of church (or world) history. I will not be taking questions at this time.

Charlie Dates on the Black church, via Holy Post Media instagram.com/reel/DU6GXVBEQ…

*guy who's trying to do literally everything alone*: "Wow, life is really hard and overwhelming"

How it feels like to have your bid for connection ignored:

"Once I had a resistive patient...who persisted in blaming his mother for events occurring decades previously. I helped him...by asking him to repeat, several times, this statement: “I’m not going to change, Mother, till you treat me differently than when I was eight years old.”

One of the best comedy bits I've seen recently (please ignore the commentator)

Maybe sometimes I worry *I* don’t fit in with the beautiful architecture around me and my indecorousness is a kind of injustice

Hugoboom?

except Jesus's example of resisting the temptation to fulfill his desire for food at the devil's behest involves instruction that all can follow: to live by the word of God and not bread alone. so the concept of imitation isn't entirely out of scope.

Satan cannot suggest that you sing "Jesus is Lord" but the Church has sung it for millenia. Like he literally can't Calling the singing of "Jesus is Lord" a suggestion that Satan would give you would seem to obviously calling good evil and evil good.

Its about fear. But there is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.

Do I seem like a flake?

Ai comes along….

Christianity is a harmonization of old and new; modernity is a deviant harmonization. Given modernity’s Christian sources, though, john milbank is right that our stance can be neither “outright refusal, nor outright acceptance” but “an attempt at radical redirection.”

deep weird hypothesis 1. all sinners are born with the mark of cain that protects them from death 2. in baptism, the mark is washed away, bringing symbolic death to us (buried in baptism) Advantage: baptism IS NOT a mark. It's not an invisible mark, it would wash marks off.