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[blessedarethebinarybreakers]

Advent Devotionals, 2023

I wanted to share some devotionals for this coming Advent (it starts December 3!) that are queer affirming & center marginalized perspectives. If you know of others, please add on!

What Are You Waiting For? An LGBTQIA+ Affirming Advent Devotional

Format: A short written devotional or poem for every day of Advent, shared as one PDF document linked above

Creators: The Collective of Queer Christian Leaders, including Rev. Nicole Garcia of the National LGBTQ Task Force and members of the Transmission Ministry Network

Another Starry Black Night: A Womanist Advent Devotional

Format: Short written devotionals, one for each Sunday & Wednesday of Advent, as well as Christmas day

Creators: Black women, most of whom are ordained Presbyterian ministers, some of whom are queer

Posted on Unbound: An Interactive Journal of Christian Social Justice

Abolition Advent Calendar: "Freedom for All Bodies"

Format: daily written devotionals that you can sign up to receive as emails. Each week expands the theme of abolition & racial justice to include 1) reproductive justice; 2) trans/nonbinary justice; 3) disability justice; and 4) body positivity

Shared by Join the Movement, a UCC organization

"Todos! Todos! Todos! Advent Reflections and Meditations on the Scriptures

Format: Zoom calls with a reflection followed by discussion groups every Wednesday of Advent, 8pm-9pm EST

Creators: DignityUSA, a Catholic LGBT-advocacy organization

An Advent Guide with Reflections on Palestine/Israel

Format: a devotional for each Sunday of Advent, shared as one PDF linked above

Creators: "Each week during Advent read firsthand accounts from recently returned Ecumenical Accompaniers (EAs) of their experiences during their deployment with the World Council of Churches’ Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel (WCC-EAPPI). Along with their stories and photos are bible readings, further resources and prayers to offer."

#queer christians #advent #advent 2023 #devotionals #prayer tag #resources

[proseandpeonies]

if you're a praying person or someone spiritual please keep my aunt in your prayers. she had a surgery and is now almost completely unable to walk. she's also in a ton of pain. there's going to be a second procedure tomorrow. please please pray for her. her name is holly

#prayer tag #prayer request #personal

[a-queer-seminarian]

If I can ask for prayer, I'm having a difficult time with my brother who, because of his own religious trauma, is hurt and angry with me for still being Christian when he's chosen not to be. He feels very alone because he has no one in his life who shares his perspective, but he doesn't seem to have room for the nuance of the fact that there are different ways to be Christian, different world views and traditions and ways of being part of them. He's constantly unfairly putting himself down for 'being stupid', but in this instance he actually is just badly educated on the topic and because of the trauma he resists learning from sources that aren't anti-religion. I don't feel attacked or pressured necessarily but there's only so much support I can offer him in this area when he's expecting me to change "for my own good" or to make him feel less alone, and can't accept my nuanced response.

Hey there, anon. Ach, I feel for both you and your brother, and I'll be praying for both of you. It sounds like you respect his decision not to be religious anymore and that's great; I hope that he can come to respect your own choice to keep religion a part of your life.

May your brother's pain ease with time; may people come into his life who can relate to his experience and help him discover new sources of nourishment. And may God enfold you in patience and comfort to shield you against any hurtful things your brother may say in the meantime.

#prayer tag #prayer request

[icarusapotheosis]

∞

Okay technically it's two lines but

Like if you hold me without hurting me You'll be the first who ever did

From Cinnamon Girl, by Lana del Rey

#prayer tag #thanks for the ask!! #ask game #nev tag

[sjoongki]

ramadan mubarak to all those who are observing. may this holy month soothe all of the aches lingering in your heart, wash away whatever burdens that may be weighing you down, reward you for all of the sacrifices that you have had to make in order to survive, shine light through whatever darkness that has made you doubt your place in this world, and grant you the inner peace, genuine happiness, and relief that you have been praying so patiently for.

#tbd #ramadan #ramadan mubarak #ramadan kareem #رمضان #muslim tag #may all of your fasts and prayers be accepted insha'Allah <3 #non-muslims feel free to reblog too ^^

[wuntrum]

new month, new postcard for the postcard club! 🖥📀💾

#my art #clip studio paint #tech tag #everyone say a prayer to the computer angel <3 #also NOT an april fools day joke. i take computing very seriously

[latenightsundayblues]

You absolutely cannot tell me that Lawrence Gordon, middle aged sexually repressed homo who's been craving dick since college, was faced with the sight of a soaking wet twink and didn't have a single unsavory thought

#*thinks this in the middle of my doodling session* yeah sure ill post it on tumblr dot com why not #adam lifts his shirt to look for any damages and lawrence mutters a little prayer at the ceiling for his own sake #saw #saw fanart #saw movies #adam faulkner #chainshipping #adam stanheight #adam faulkner stanheight #lawrence gordon #saw adam #saw lawrence #latenightsundayblues art tag

[kazeh1k1]

Plural people with an anxiety disorder call that nervous system

#hiki's prayers #osddid #osdd #actually plural #yeah thats enough tags probably

[geezmarty]

with twitter’s situation being what it is I’m a bit uncertain about what the future holds for my account there (which had about 28k followers that I painstakingly gathered over the course of many many years. that’s a lot of audience to potentially lose for someone who relies entirely on their socials for their job).

so here’s a bit of self promo 😭 I’m Marty, an italian lesbian living in the UK. You might’ve seen some of my stuff around. I make gay comics, TTRPG illos, and more often than not I’m available for commissions (not now but soon enough I’ll have to reopen again 💝)

I’ve been too busy with work but I want to go back to posting more when I can!! If you’ve ever enjoyed anything I make, it would mean the world to me if you could boost this.

Thank you so much for your support over the years and let’s keep going!! 💜

#disco elysium #remisa #dimension 20 #dragon age #carmilla #hope people don't mind me posting in the tags #it's just this once I promise (prayer emoji)

[haloshot]

has anyone else died for you?

#haloshot #pinterest shuffles #spn #supernatural #dean winchester #someone said in the tags of a different edit that these look like prayer cards #and buddy i am taking that to HEART #prepare to be sick of me

[lttledog]

Sacred Heart with Doves, French Catholic Holy Card

#catholic #catholicism #catholique #french #french catholic #catholiscism #catholocism #lol the misspelled tags #christianity #christian #prayer #prayer card #holy cats #christian imagery #christian art #jesus christ #christian faith #christian quotes #christian living #jesus #faith in jesus #jesus loves you #virgin mary #catholic art #catholic aesthetic #catholic academia #christian aesthetic #i’m not a christian blog sorry #these tags are for reach #sacred heart

[blessedarethebinarybreakers]

Queer-Affirming Worship Resource: Daily Ripple

"Our goal is to build a framework for discipleship for the 21st Century. With more people leaving traditional churches, we hope to fill in a gap for people who are still looking for faith formation opportunities."

If you want to incorporate queer-affirming, justice-oriented snippets of biblical reflection into your everyday life, Daily Ripple is a great option. Every weekday, subscribers receive a short reflection, ending with a question meant to guide you towards action. (It's free btw!)

If you're curious, here are a few of the recent daily posts that most resonated with me:

Lament as a skill, a gift

Considering neopronouns in light of Jesus's statement that "The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath"

"How does your image of God reflect the image you experience in a mirror?"

I'm excited to be joining Daily Ripple's creative team, starting this week! So y'know, if you're into the stuff I write here — or are looking for ways to bring more intentionality into Lent — now's a great time to check it out :D

#biblical reflection #reading and studying the bible #devotional #worship materials #daily ripple #btw it was previously called reframe -- just got renamed recently! #prayer tag #resources

[bioethicists]

my wife brought up a brilliant point this morning: a huge problem with the way we view psychology (a problem which is frequently exploited + used to justify a lot of just. shitty work) is that it lives in a no-man's land between "social sciences" + "natural sciences" in the collective imagination.

consider: one of the first works which spurned my interest in psychiatric abolition was durkheim's work on suicide. as a sociologist ("social scientist"), he uses pretty rigorous quantitative methods to show that suicide is much less correlated with levels of depression than it is with cultural factors (like religion, country of origin, marriage rates). however, people do not respond to the medicalization of suicide by saying "well, durkheim proved that suicide isn't a mental illness symptom, so this is unscientific"- this is obviously a drastic oversimplification of his work + it's commonly understood that sociology does not "prove" immutable social truths.

similarly, i would not comment on a study which identifies changes in t-cells over time among hiv+ patients by arguing that it didn't deeply explore the social environments or past traumas they had experienced, (even though those could have an impact on t-cell count), because i understand that is not the purpose of the research + ultimately they had to choose to control for these factors without centering them in order to obtain important medical information. "this information is meaningless because it doesn't include each patient's trauma history" would be an absurd critique.

among the general population + many self-assured researchers, psychology gets both the privilege of being a "social science" (so we can't expect it to be TOO exact; it's complicated; it's not really saying that's ALWAYS true; if it proves inaccurate that's because culture/social factors must have muddied it up; we can't really expect PROOF for most of it) as well as a "natural science" (you can't question its basic presumptions or you're a science denier; the dsm describes real things which existed even before it was written; it obviously is rooted in biology even if we haven't discovered how yet; reducing its measures to quantitative evaluation is fine + unproblematic).

my point here isn't to argue that psychology is a "social" or "natural" science, but rather that we need to rethink what work those categories actually do + whether the distinction between them is as strict or meaningful as we believe it to be. our strict dichotomies between "objectively proven truths" + "social observations which are ultimately just informed opinions" are exposed when we look at a field which seems to be uncomfortably situated within both. what kind of work might become possible if we abandoned this dichotomy, rather than bickering over whose work belongs in which club?

#tagging this b4 i start: prayers for me that this can be concise cuz i have a bunch of dead french guys to read for class #psych abolition #ok it wasnt too bad

[definitelynotshouting]

A Kemetic prayer to Bast for Jellie

Hail to You, O' Bast, Who guards the Two Lands! Hail to You, Iryt Ra! You who are swift and cunning, You who strike down enemies and nurture children. I ask that You protect and nurture the cat Jellie as she crosses into Your domain, through the Duat and into Your Hour. I ask that she is kept from harm and given safety and shelter in the cradle of Your arms. Hail to You, O' Bast, Devouring Lady, Mother of my Soul! I offer sweet cheese and fruits. I offer spiced tea and toasted nuts. I offer the ring of my sistrum. May Jellie only know warmth and good food with You, the comfort of the sun. May she hunt on under Your guidance. May she find peace and joy within Your company. Hail to You, O' Bast, Lady of the Ointments, the Knowledge through which death cannot approach too closely! I light this candle and ask that all those who have called this cat family find comfort and peace in this time of her absence. I ask that Your Light guides her to You, and that she remains safely within Your domain. May her name be forever remembered. May her ba be forever nourished through the shrines and images made in her honor. Thus it is done. Dua Bast!

this is free to reblog if you so choose, and i hope whoever reads it can find even a small measure of comfort in it❤️❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂

#shouting speaks #kemetic #prayer #jellie #jellie mcyt #goodtimeswithscar #mcyt #religious #<- tagging so those who might not want to see it can filter it out #if anyone is worried about the cat whiskers: i save the ones my cat naturally sheds whenever i find them #these were already loose whiskers and i save them for purposes exactly like these #if anyone wants to know my process or anything for this you're free to ask btw i just didnt want to clog up the main post #ngl it feels a little nervewracking to post this so please be kind about it #pet death #animal death #tw: pet death #txt

[tatakaeeren]

*Mind empty* I can only think of this 💖

#gojo satoru #satoru gojo #jjk #jjk spoilers #jjk 2 #jujutsu kaisen #toriigifs #Im serious!! ...not even the entire scene or the other faces he makes #THISSSSS thisss is what I've been thinking all day :') #I WANT TO BE THAT BALL SO BADLYYYY 😭😭😭😭😭 #look at his squishy cheeks!! ajhgddga #I bettt I BETT that's the face he makes when you tell him ... sorry Satoru no more candy for you XD or sorry not today I'm busy akjdhad #god I need headcanons or fanfics based on this gif #If someone hears my prayer... please let me know or tag me #I NEED ITTTT #usergojoana #userartless #userdabiluna #useraki #userokkottsus #userhyu #userlisette #jjk headcanons #jjk x reader #jjkedit

[andaniellight]

"bitch i only looked away for ONE FUCKING SECOND-"

#i mean... it does take only a second to turn into a worm 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♀️ #thoughts and prayers for this rainbow gang 🙏🏼🌈🏳‍🌈 #One Piece #Wano Arc #Trafalgar Law #Trafalgar D Water Law #Roronoa Zoro #Captain Eustass Kidd #Eustass Captain Kidd #Killer #Killer One Piece #Trafalgar D. Water Law #Monkey D Luffy #Monkey D. Luffy #going to tag this as ZoLaw because i can #Wano Spoilers #Wano Arc spoilers #Wano Kuni