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not-so-superheroine · 6 months

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okay, latter day saints (of all flavors)

in your opinion, who is the/your most based latter day prophet and why?

#mormon #latter day saints #tumblrstake #queerstake #community of christ #i didn’t put Q12 bc i have major biases there #obvi the apostle who is my tik tok mutual 🤪 (i'm dead serious. the embarrassment 😳)#and most of y'all would say Apostle Uchtdorf i do believe #and yeah he's cool i will say #my answer will go in an rb so people can respond in an rb without my long post #i will have to tell that tik tok story bc i decided to delete absolutely nothing lol #Apostle Smith will simply cope with the cringy content #in the Utah church my favorite is President Spencer W. Kimball but thats just my outside opinion #i read Black Saints in a White Church and he earned my respect for going to bat for Black Saints in the Utah LDS church #but not a fan of some of his stuff from the early 60's but his understanding of race clearly grew and improved from then

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nerdygaymormon · 9 months

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I saw a post of yours asking why you don't go to the Community of Christ, to which you mentioned there's problems with what they teach. Could you elaborate if you haven't already?

I don't remember that particular post, so not sure what I was referencing. Probably I was thinking of things I've chatted about with friends who have converted to the Community of Christ.

I remember they feel frustration at how slowly it takes to move things in their church. It gets reviewed, discussed, reviewed again, discussed more, and can take years. This gives people time to get used to the ideas being presented and get buy in, so it's a good thing in the end, but the process can be frustrating.

I'm not sure I'd classify what they teach as problems, maybe just different and I'm sure we could say there's some areas they could work on, just as there are for every religious organization.

I do want to give props to the Community of Christ, I have holy envy for some things they have done:

Community of Christ rejected polygamy, didn't practice it, and don't have it as part of their heavenly theology

All priesthood offices are open to women and LGBTQ members, and Black men were never excluded from their priesthood

Some other differences from the LDS Church is Community of Christ:

They believe in a Trinitarian God, "The essence of God is love as revealed in Christ and the experience of the Holy Spirit."

They no longer claim to be the one true church and instead view their church as a "sacred place in the wider Christian circle."

While they continue to have the Book of Mormon, it's not required for a member to believe it is divine scripture, they can view is as an ancient American text or as a product of the 19th century.

They don't talk much about hell or even that much about heaven. They view salvation as about grace, not something which is earned, and is about living out God's love now and in the future.

The Community of Christ rejects uses of scriptures that are "coercive, bullying, or denigrating of people...[since] that does not square with who Jesus was and what he did."

#community of christ

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loveerran · 2 years

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I went to a Community of Christ congregation this past weekend. The lessons have been sticking with me. I particularly enjoyed the one about how we should not just pray for peace, we should become peace.

What would happen if we all became people who radiate peace into the lives of others?

#i suspect we would have more friends to start with #becoming a nexus of peace #so much that people feel that when they are around me #there are many worse things to be #queerstake #tumblrstake #queerward #theology #religion #true christianity #community of christ

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wallywoahjack · 1 year

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Anytime I put my hair in a single braid I feel like I'm really representing the Mormon ancestry

#exmormon #community of christ #at the low end i was a third generation member threw 1 parent #and at the least i can confirm is a sixth on the other

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locallibrarylover · 8 months

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*by live theatre i mean plays, musicals, operas, ballets, concert versions of musicals, staged readings, & things of that nature. EDIT: YES this includes amateur, local, kids, high school, & community theatre. almost every show i've seen has been local

if you want, list the names of the shows you've seen in the tags!

#(if you saw this before no you didnt. i wanted to add more options)#anyways! very curious about how much live theatre people on here see.#personally i've 22 shows? those being: sleeping beauty (ballet). mary poppins. the lion king. the sound of music. once on this island.#little shop of horrors. mamma mia! chess. annie. music man jr. jesus christ superstar. joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat.#something rotten! sam's room. the blender. bad auditions by bad actors. the 10 worst breakups of all time. drugs are bad. fairy tale court.#peter and the starcatcher. a christmas carol. & robin hood! all of those have been local/community except lion king ^_^#(yes i also redid this because i forgot about robin hood & sleeping beauty...)#musings

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the-mother-of-lions · 4 months

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heaven and hell

J CHRIST - LIL NAS X

#lil nas x #j christ #lnxedit #pocedit #lgbtedit #musicedit #musicvideoedit #celebrities #lgbtq community #lgbtqedit #dailylgbtedit #columbia records #liongifs

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anotherpapercut · 1 year

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just had an absolutely sickening conversation with a 20 year old I work with wherein I had to impress upon her that her and her friends need to be extremely cautious going to the gay clubs right now with increasing attacks happening. make sure any very young, very newly adult queer people in your life know that we're a family and community and part of that is being willing to fight for your siblings lives if they're under attack. even if it's a person you despise, you stick up for your family and they will stick up for you. we are all we have. the cops refuse to help, and so do most people outside the community. we cannot survive without each other

#go in groups! leave before closing! bring something that can be thrown at someone! park close!#heart breaking #i dont wanna talk to the 18 year olds coming for the first time excited to have fun about how they have to be on guard at all times #i want kids who are just blossoming into the adults theyre going to be to have a safe place to feel loved and nurtured #im only 23 for christs sake #why am I having to talk to a 20 year old like im their 60 year old grandparent #i just want to feel safe with my community in what is essentially the family home

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dejahisashmom · 1 year

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The Death of a Mormon: Joseph Smith’s Murder - Historic Mysteries

The Death of a Mormon: Joseph Smith’s Murder – Historic Mysteries

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godslove · 3 months

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¹⁷ “You can throw us into the blazing furnace. The God we serve is able to save us from the furnace and your power. If He does this, it is good. ¹⁸ But even if God does not save us, we want you, our king, to know this: We will not serve your gods. We will not worship the gold statue you have set up.”

—‭‭Daniel 3:17-18

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knifearo · 5 months

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"asexual discourse" is so funny cause dude that's not discourse and it's never been discourse. it's not an argument and it's not a conversation bitches are just yelling at us unprompted and then making up people to get mad at 😭

#exclusionists will act like they're in the fucking trenches when they're posting #as if they're not taking the time to walk into someone else's community without provocation and start being nasty.#saw a post the other day that was saying smth aphobic and was like 'it's true and we should be allowed to say it'#babe nobody's Stopping you. you can say whatever the fuck you want.#thing is though that when you say shitty things. people don't typically like it <3 #anyway die mad sorry that you fell for heteronormativity and amatonormativity and assume both to be the norm.#i'm gonna keep creating community with other queer people and you are more than welcome to go off and die alone <3 #also if you're fr going into ace discourse in the year of our lord 2024. jesus fucking christ get a hobby #aromantic #aromanticism #arospec #aroace #aspec #talking #asexual #ace discourse #ace exclusion

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elextric-eye · 2 years

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Realest thing I’ve ever seen 😐

#like let people exist they don’t owe it to you to come out #Jesus fucking Christ #heartstopper #kit Connor #nick Nelson #joe Locke #Charlie spring #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbtq+#lgbtq community #gay #bisexual #lesbian #pansexual #asexual #queer #lgbtq pride #lgbt positivity

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not-so-superheroine · 30 days

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deseret book is more persistent than duolingo.

i ordered 2 books for a church research project on Black saints in the early Church and also in the Reorganization, on which the one book had a small section us and all had info from the our shared early church history, and it was an ebook too!

and i get physical mail from them once a month. i have no idea how to cancel.

herald house, the community of christ publishing house, contacts me much less, and i buy books from them all the time.

and oh their church book app reminds me to read my scriptures and the words of their prophets regularly if it's not in sleep mode.

i have to admire the effort behind it, ngl.

#tumblrstake #the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints #Community of Christ #latter day saint #deseret book #i highly recommend both books #black saints in a white church #and “My Lord He Calls Me” edited by Alice Faulkner Burch #she's really awesome so pls support her #i hang out with the genesis group bc i am playing with a similar group for community of christ #because the Black saints expressed interest #actually Black Saints in a White Church may have been elsewhere by Signature Books #you can read it for free on archive.org #and if you're at BYU you can access it too and papers on it #i'll promo them in another post eventually #white saints in my church don't get my vision bc their like “we never had a priesthood ban”#but i literally had to do the project bc they were speaking over us regarding anti-Black racism in our D&C #and people individually reached out. like Black church leaders. bc they be doing this.#we made so much noise and the first presidency reached out to ME bc i wrote a paper that spread through the church about it #wild moment. but yeah we need something like the Genesis Group and they were willing to help me out a bit #its too much for me to handle on my own tho. esp with the revitalizing our intepretation and use of the Book of Mormon projects #i always put too much in the tags. i should write a post about that and share my article #it was on our D&C 116 which is like our L-dS OD 2 on Race in the priesthood and specifically ordination of Black men #which they (some of the white saints) wanted removed 🙄 bc of the “ministers to their own race” part which led to segregation being allowed #but also explicitly affirms God calls people of all races to priesthood and also that Black congregations didn’t need white pastor oversight #so just leave it. and ig you feel guilty...cope #i personally believe it to be inspired but flawed #it was literally a mostly white church in 1865. not excusing tho bc some sects were always fully integrated like the Bickertonites #they had a Black apostle in 1915. representation at high levels of leadership #oh and women in the priesthood from the jump. if limited

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adventures-in-poor-planning · 1 year

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I do think I'm going to become an insane hermit if I see 1 more snarky rejoinder about growing your own veggies n fruits if they're so expensive. Growing your own veg as an amateur is an enriching, calming, joyful way to get three bell peppers in a whole season.

#i ran an entire community garden and i STILL did not get any ripe peppers #like i love gardening but jesus christ #plant tag

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rotruff · 1 month

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hii. your uncaring or cold f/o does in fact care quite a lot. especially in moments of weakness.

yes they care whenever you feel tired, burnt out and maybe they won't say anything. maybe it comes off like they don't care, but that would be ignoring how they find themselves taking up whatever work there might've been to do so you can rest a while longer without complaint. any 'oh you don't have to-'s get brushed off with a little 'go lay back down' or something similar. the shortness isn't because they're irritated, no, it's just because it's a little silly to them- yes, obviously they don't have to, but they're going to because they love you. maybe that's a little too sappy for them to voice, maybe they do reveal that, either way they'll find their way back to you whenever everything's set away and done. whether they're laying down with you or just sitting nearby and working on their own thing, they keep themself within arm's reach should you need anything.

yes they care whenever you're feeling sick or riding out any nasty symptoms. they'll go make any trips out for things you want or need without question, maybe making a quick promise that they'll be right back. maybe it's a little silly to think you're going to keel over in the handful of minutes they're at the store for, but they just don't want you to feel like you're suffering alone. they might not be feeling out whatever it is you are, but they still want to keep you company through it. maybe they hover just a little, if only just to monitor your symptoms, but rest assured they really don't mind doing whatever it is that makes you feel better. if you want a specific food or drink they'll be running through the rain if they have to to get it to you. if you wanna shower or take a bath but don't have the energy to set it all up or to really take care of yourself they're meticulous with it, setting out whatever they can remember you liking and what might help you feel better and keeping any touches gentle and delicate. if you just wanna lay down and have them nearby, they're happy to just stick around, so long as you can spare them the glances they're sneaking at you every now and then while you rest, relishing in the comfort and safety of the moment.

proship / adj dni

#self shipping #self ship #self ship community #f/o imagines #imagine your f/o #f/o prompts #self ship imagine #romantic f/o #f/o community #self shipper #self shipping community #selfship #selfshipping #my period is KILLING MEEEEE. full body aches + sore throat what if i died. what then #ibuprofen .... ibuprofen and water save me #save me water and ibuprofen #so. um. sorry if this is poorly written im so tired i just woke up from a nap i thought would cure me and it DIDNT #im like jesus christ on the cross im suffering everything ever

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queerism1969 · 1 month

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palavratododia · 10 days

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Esta imagem representa como meu coração esteve muitas e muitas vezes, mas encontrei um ugar que não doi mais. Já esteve assim?

#christian blog #literature #jesus #jesus is coming #faith in jesus #jesus christ #bible #jesus loves you #god #christianity #lord #salvation #christ #christian community #christian quotes #christian living

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