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8bitmanna · 1 year

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Verse of the Day

💙Galatians 6:9💙

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spiritofkoprijan · 1 year

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#orthodoxy #christianity #orthodox christianity #christian youth #struggle #podvig #christian quotes #quotes #beautiful quote #orthodox ethos #lifestyle #life

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agapey25 · 1 year

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I'm fundraising for this awesome charity because of their amazing involvement in the community. The work they do is incredible; they have a foodbank every Saturday, soup kitchen for people who cannot afford a hot meal, giving warmth appeal to hospitals, elderly care homes and hospices, youth activities raising awareness of crimes and mental health. Any donation small or large will really help make a difference!

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/priscilla-booth1

#registered charity #christianity #christmas #fundraising #donations #helping people #volunteer #christian youth #awareness #mental health #mental wellbeing #positive words #positive mental attitude #food bank #soup kitchen #youth group #elderly #hospice #hospital

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believerinchristblog · 1 year

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In our life we expect many things to be done but some expectation will happens but some it won't happens. My Dear Youths Don't worry!!! Yes Expectation kills a lot but let me tell you a secret your expectation is like a bed of roses but it is a bed of thorns. Let me tell you a message Never ever expect an expectation in your life. Wait for moment it will be like more than your expectations. So my Dear Youths be patient and wait for worth!!! Jesus Loves You. God Bless ❤

#bible #love #sharing #praytogether #prayfortheworld #prayalways #prayer #pray without ceasing #pray for one another #pray for us #christian youth #christian bible #bible quotes #christian living #christianity #faith in jesus #Spotify

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noknowshame · 1 year

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why is religious Christmas imagery all so joyful and pleasant? where is the inherent horror of the birth of Christ? A mother is handed her newborn child, wailing and innocent. Her hands come away sticky. Red. Simply by giving her son life she has already killed him. He is doomed from the beginning. Her love will not save him from suffering. Because the thing cradled in her arms is not a baby, it is a sacrifice: born amongst the other bleating animals whose blood will one day be spilled in the name of what demands it. the night is silent with anticipation. Mary, did you know? That your womb was also a grave?

#instant conversation enders for my multiple youth pastor cousins #don’t say it (I’m gonna say it)#The Child is The Price #but i mean come on #as someone who isn't actually even christian the real-life historical version of this is still cursed as fuck #i mean we know that jesus was a person who existed. whatever circumstances he was born in #its terrifyingly ominous to imagine being so unaware of the affect your child will have on the future of humanity #time itself will one day be counted around your birth of him #and all because he will suffer an excruciatingly painful death that you will not be able to prevent #not only that. but regardless of his or your intentions #regardless of whether there is a god #for millenea unfathomable millions will have blood spilled and will spill blood in his name #atrocities will be committed that you cannot even conceive of #and all on his and your behalf #you love your child. its beautiful. but there's horror in what you've done. because everyone else will love him too #and what's more dangerous than that?

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elm-e · 1 year

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On Self-Acceptance

I was speaking to a friend the other day about personal style. Some of us have consciously or unconsciously curated certain fashion pieces that define our style. It’s easy to identify us with these pieces. However, that wasn’t the issue. The issue was in the confidence to pull off your personal style amidst spectators who would always talk. Any encounter with African aunts and uncles will give…

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#african aunts #Christian youth #faith #fashion #finding myself #life #love #new blogpost #self acceptance #transitioning millennial #young adult

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sniper-rifle-coffee · 1 year

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Rock climbing woods 🪵

Back when I was free & had joy loved the outdoors climbing learning how to go backwards it was great times I was one of the strongest climbers of the group did a over hang that only me & him could do

#winnipeg #canadian #relaxing #mine #rock climbing #learning #teaching #christian youth #swat #Samson wilderness aventure team

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lizardtracks · 1 year

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Continue this way…

Methodist Camp was built ten years before I was born. When I became aware of it in 2015 it had—somehow—survived the 2011 Horseshoe 2 Fire**, changed hands, and become Pine Canyon Youth Camp. In 2020 it vanished, torn down—I presume—by the Forest Service. I, for one, was not sad to see it go. I’ll explain.

Christian youth camps were no doubt a great idea in the aftermath of WWII. And Methodist Camp occupied one of the choice spots in the Chiricahuas. I can only imagine how great it must have been to spend a summer fortnight there. The main center was a two-story building. There were nearly a dozen cabins in a half-mile stretch. There was an amphitheater. Pine Canyon Creek flowed all summer long. A short hiking trail followed a ridge flank to Cathedral Rocks. Longer hikes ranging throughout the Chiricahuas were possible. It is a prime spot to see deer, bear, coatimundi, turkey, and squirrel. It is a prime bird habitat with everything from Stellar’s jays to copper-tailed trogons. At some point utilities were added and Methodist Camp had piped water, electricity, and phone lines.

By the turn of the century though youth camps had run their course. Not that kids can’t benefit from running loose and feral through the woods. The problem is getting them to do it. Even Christian youth, though more accustomed to taking adult direction, probably bulked at the idea of being cloistered away in Timbuktu. So when I first saw (what was now) Pine Canyon Youth Camp it looked like a relic taking up space. I mean it was situated on perfect camping spots. So when it vanished in 2020 I was ready to make it a 2021 destination.

Nature had other ideas. Down here in the basins, our monsoon storms can be eye-opening. In the mountains they can be terrifying. Still, despite following a mountain stream for more than nine miles, Forest Service Route 357 remained intact for generations. The flooding resulting from the Horseshoe 2 fire roughed it up a bit. But most was still passable in two-wheel drive with moderate clearance. And the quarter-mile stretch to Pine Canyon Camp remained in easy Subaru territory. So the 2021 storms must have been legendary. North past Hoovey Canyon, 357 became a jeep trail. Even the bit to Pine Canyon Camp got churned to high-clearance 4WD. That was still doable. But 2022 must have been Noachian! For all practical purposes, 357 no longer exists. And the creek bed along former Pine Canyon Camp is nothing more than an alluvial fan. Boulders, scoured from the mountains above, block any path to the old camp. And to those perfect campsites.

So taking up a weekend residence at Pine Canyon Camp will never be possible. (Unless we backpack in.) Even the 120 yards of road to our old reliable site may not be passable next year. One spot is mostly chewed away—with an eight-foot drop into the creek bed. It was narrow enough when we arrived. Then some dumbass in a monster truck knocked out another chunk. He had to dig away the opposite embankment to get out.

And if the narrow spot crumbles? There may be one spot left. At the right time of year, early enough in the week, we might be able to nab it. I’d like to. Camping in that area has become an annual tradition. So I like the sign above. Methodist Camp must have had a trail through the woods with The Stations of the Cross. At intervals is the direction “Continue this way”. Somehow the Forest Service missed this, or ignored it, when they disappeared Pine Canyon Youth Camp. Maybe they left it there for me to discover. Whatever the reason, it spoke to me. I have learned to love that little spot in the Chiricahuas. I want to go back. I want to continue this way.

**The Horseshoe 2 Fire started May 11, 2011. It started on the east side of the Chiricahuas. Within a week it had spread completely across the range burning nearly a quarter of a million acres. The wooden buildings of Methodist Camp somehow survived that and the subsequent flooding.

#chiricahua #mountains #hiking #christian youth

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souliecrystalline · 2 years

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Some days ago, i did a new White Rose Project animation on Heaven's Splinter Studios

Link: (65) Glad you came - Whiterose Project - YouTube -------- Hace algunos dias, yo hice una nueva animación de Whiterose Project en Heaven's Splinter Studios

Link: (65) Glad you came - Whiterose Project - YouTube ----------- Alguns dias atrás, eu fiz uma nova animação de Whiterose Project no Heaven's Splinter Studios

Link: (65) Glad you came - Whiterose Project - YouTube

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sergle · 6 months

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mistborn fanart where people draw Vin ultra feminine poutylips in the face and give her ultra snatched waist / significant ass and tits... Hey. I have a gun

#hey! quick question. I have a gun #'that's not a question' you're right. it's not. [COCKING SOUND]#sergle.txt #brandanderson sandanderson GIVES YOU characters that fit this mold better. draw one of them. keep your hands off vin I have a fucking gun #you're going to look me in my christian eyes and tell me this is how you see her. when she passed for a boy?#and being built small bc of malnourishment in her youth. you heard 'small' and assumed that was only her waist being referred to?#vin doesn't have a bbl... please........ my triggerfinger...

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planetofsnarfs · 1 month

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When a child dies – any child – the loss is incalculable. There’s the loss of a son or daughter, a sibling, a cousin, a best friend. There’s a loss of a life, snuffed out before its time. The loss of a future – who knows what that child could have accomplished?

And when that child dies, particularly under horrific circumstances, there is a loss of innocence for all of us, regardless of whether we knew that child or not. Among the first impulses for anyone with a heart who wishes to protect other children is to find a way – any way – to prevent a loss like that from happening again.

The hyper-cruel antithesis of this is what’s going on right now in Oklahoma in the wake of 16-year-old Nex Benedict’s death. As we first reported, Nex, a transgender sophomore at Owasso High School, was brutally beaten by other students in a school bathroom and died the following day. The incident has drawn national attention – but not nearly enough, in my opinion – with many attributing the violent act to a culture of transphobia they say is being stoked by state officials.

Days before Nex’s death, The Oklahoman reported that there were a whopping 50 bills in the state legislature targeting LGBTQ+ people. The state ranks 48th in both education and health care. Don’t you think the state legislature and state government officials have better things to do than sow queer hate among its citizens?

One of those state officials is the superintendent of public instruction, Ryan Walters. Even before Nex’s death, Walters was virulently anti-LGBTQ+. More than 350 LGBTQ+ organizations, activists, and celebrities urged his removal from office after Nex died, saying he has encouraged “a climate of hate and bigotry” throughout his career. Nex’s death didn’t stop him from fanning the flames of hate.

Walters poured salt into a festering wound, telling The New York Times, “There's not multiple genders. There’s two. That’s how God created us.” He added that he did not believe that nonbinary or transgender people exist and that the state would not let students use names or pronouns other than those matching their birth records.

It seems the goal of the official responses around Nex’s death has been to protect those who bullied and beat him. Police were quick to release initial reports saying that Nex "did not die as a result of trauma."

It’s important to note that school officials did not reprimand, sanction, or report to authorities the students who critically harmed Nex. “No report of the incident was made to the Owasso Police Department prior to the notification at the hospital,” Chief Dan Yancey told The Advocate.

The police jumped out over their skis with their initial statement, which raised eyebrows. In fact, Sue Benedict, who was Nex’s adoptive mother, told the news site Popular Information that a statement released by the Owasso Police was a “big cover."

Parents and other members of the public expressed outrage over how the school was handling the response to Nex’s death, particularly pointing out that protecting queer kids and making sure that it didn’t happen again was not a priority for the school board. “Apparently people don’t feel safe here. I can’t imagine why at all,” public commenter Walter Masterson said at the first Owasso school board meeting after Nex's death. “A more 'woke' school board would see the death of a child and work to make sure it never happens again. Not this board.”

Then, along comes the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Oklahoma, which concluded that Nex died by suicide. The medical examiner’s one-page summary report identifies the cause of death as combined toxicity from diphenhydramine (Benadryl) and fluoxetine (Prozac). Noticeably absent from the report were all the injuries Nex incurred the day before.

My colleague Christopher Wiggins was once a paramedic. When he saw the cause of death was attributed to two very common medications, he decided to investigate. He’s a damn good reporter, and his suspicions regarding the report were justified. He reached out to two toxicology experts, who first made it clear that they weren’t privy to Nex’s autopsy report; however, they told Christopher that the risk of death from these medications, especially when used as directed, is extraordinarily low.

In response to the coroner’s report, GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said in a statement, “Nex’s family accurately notes how the report released this week does not reflect the full picture of what happened to Nex and continues to urge accountability of those who failed to keep Nex and all students in Oklahoma safe from bullying, harassment, assault, and most brutally, death.”

Now you have this full picture of all those involved, coupled with a backdrop of hate. Taken in its totality, the reaction to Nex’s death shows that a corrupt, do-nothing clique is part of a deceptive lie and cover-up that shows they did nothing, zero, zilch to protect the life of Nex or any child like him. The authorities' only goal is to protect the perpetrators, not just those who attacked Nex but all those who will be emboldened to beat others just like Nex in the future in school bathrooms throughout the state.

The grossly deceptive response to Nex’s death makes the state of Oklahoma a breeding ground for the bullying – and for beating to injury or death – of LGBTQ+ kids. What the state is doing goes against all we know about protecting vulnerable children.

If the state legislature pushes hate bills, if state officials spew hate, if local authorities and administrators cover up hate, then you create this breeding ground. You create an atmosphere where that hate explodes, like it did with Nex, and you use hate to demean the victim and ennoble the haters.

Suicide rates among LGBTQ+ youth are astronomically high. If Nex ultimately did commit suicide -- and this initial autopsy report does not make a convincing case -- then Oklahoma officials still deserve to be held accountable. Oklahoma's LGBTQ+ suicide prevention line saw a 230 percent increase in calls after the cause of Nex's death was revealed by the coroner. As transgender activist Ari Drennan noted, in a climate of anti-trans hate, "every trans suicide is a murder."

But if Nex's death was ruled a suicide to avoid addressing anti-LGBTQ+ bullying, Oklahoma officials have crossed a line. Using suicide as a cover, as a deception, should be a crime.

It is worth repeating the ominous words of Walters that nonbinary or transgender people don’t exist. That means, in Walters’s world, Nex never existed. And if Nex never existed, how would Walters and other officials associated with him be able to objectively investigate Nex’s death?

All of which means that Nex’s autopsy report is a lie and a facade. Null and void. Plain and simple. Nex and his family deserve so much more, and we need to keep protesting loudly until we get the truth.

#nex benedict #children #teens #youth #public schools #public safety #republican party #christian nationalism #ryan walters #owasso high school #oklahoma

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8bitmanna · 1 year

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Verse of the Day

💛Philippians 4:6💛

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varilien · 8 months

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conjuring 2 just for the sole scene of the Crooked Man. Vash would make a great crooked man!

SOOO TRUE

#vash #vash the stampede #trigun #trigun anime #trigun fanart #asks #with-a-whisper #movie night with v #<- new tag all the recs + their responses will go under :]#okay the conjuring movies honestly give me such whiplash because they just. stand out so much from everything else i've watched lol #i've seen so few big studio horror movies and the first conjuring movie especially took me off guard just from being so........#like casually christian and “feelgood” with a happy ending where everything's fine???#like from a lore standpoint i expected the christianity vs demons thing but less so what i can only describe as youth group dialogue lmao #i think the second movie is better in a lot of respects and also less unintentionally funny hfdgkjd

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gxlden-angels · 5 months

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*Youth Pastor Voice* So I've heard all the kids are getting their Spotify Wrapped today. It shows all the music you listened to. But what about your Prayer Wrapped? Your Tithe Wrapped? What would they look like?

#Youth pastor voice is back babey!#anyways I got my spotify wrapped and I can post it if yall want #spotify called me autistic and mentally ill #I listened to the same podcast for over 100000 mins this year <333 #Cause the 97k doesn't include the patreon exclusive extended episodes I listened to of the same podcast #and also the youtube version cause they had a guest once #n e ways #ex christian #religious trauma

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believerinchristblog · 1 year

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Bible Verse

#testament of youth #sharing #christian youth #bible quotes #eternal #life #spiritualguidance #tumblrpost

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exvangelical · 1 year

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while everyone has the right to raise their child with the ethics they so desire, i do think it’s hilarious when xtians INSIST they aren’t indoctrinating or brainwashing their kids but also refuse to put them in public school (or even private xtian school), only socialize them within xtian circles like youth group or their church’s homeschool co-op, and rigorously vet any secular media so their kids doesn’t “reject the faith.” like uh. if your faith is so weak you have to hide your kids away from anybody on the outside so they never even think to question it…….. it doesn’t exactly sound legit

#text #like god forbid i ever have kids but if i did and they wanted to go to church i’d probably let them #if for no other reason just to show them how boring it is 9/10 lol #like if their friend invited them to youth group i’d be like ‘listen dude if you want to go you can #but it’s mostly just gonna be some out of touch conservative trying to guilt you for being a human being’#‘like you might get to play a game or have snacks. maybe. depending in how cool the youth pastor is.’#and if they did go we’d just have a conversation later about what they learned and we could discuss it critically #i would never intentionally isolate my child (especially older kids and teenagers) from opposing viewpoints #i would just hope i taught them enough critical thinking to not fall for emotional manipulation #ex christian #religious trauma

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