#preach Leigh

[pseudomonaslisa]

okay i keep thinking about that hugh laurie quote like "americans don't have the same rigorous analysis of accent" or whatever like. bro do you think mr. house speaks with a normal diction? like honestly the way i speak (pacing and vocabulary) is kind of similar and people have said To My Face "pseudomonaslisa no one talks like that"

#do you think dr. house is a Typical American? do you really??? #not to mention: the thing about the “american accent” is that it's the equivalent to your “received english accent” #you couldnt do an eastern washington accent. you couldnt even RECOGNIZE an eastern washington accent #i DO understand that US accents are not as distinct!! im not a linguist!!! im not denying that!!! #but i think there's something really interesting here re: the idea that americans don't have class distinctions like england #and the way we (people with the quote unquote american accent) will treat or think about anyone who quote unquote sounds black #the way we (seattlites) will pre-judge someone with an eastern washington accent #but if someone has like. the vivien leigh adjacent southern accent there's a different judgement ascribed to that #i know im preaching to the choir here and this is really only informative to tiktok teens. but all the same

[askjanaleigh]

Would You Let Your Daughter Join Andrew Tate's Harem?

Would You Let Your Daughter Join Andrew Tate’s Harem?

Hey, Besties! I finally have my YouTube channel back up and going. Here is one of my latest videos. It’s a reaction video regarding Andrew Tate and the “Manosphere.” Yea. That mess. **eye roll** If you don’t know who Tate is, he is someone desperately searching for fame and money. He has outrageous, disgusting ideas about women. I feel it’s all a front for publicity, and to be honest, it’s…

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#aba and preach #advice #andrew tate #Ask Jana Leigh #dating #reaction #relationships

[tibby]

Saw, Subtext, and My Ultra-Conservative Baby-Boomer Dad

My Dad will be 64 this autumn. My Dad is a die-hard Republican. My Dad was a Southern Baptist pastor for nearly 30 years. And my Dad is a Saw fan.

He’s always had horror movies he enjoyed (I grew up on John Carpenter.. it was kind of Our Thing), but he’s mostly a passive fan. The kind who is willing to wait until a movie watching opportunity presents itself, and decide that that’ll be the day he watched it.

So when my Dad called me a couple weeks ago, voice a little tremulous, begging me to send him a link whereby he could stream Saw (2004) and bypass the library DVD waiting period, I happily sent him the best one I’d found. He didn’t want to wait, he wanted to watch it NOW, and I could respect him for that. It was a pleasant surprise, him being interested in the movie so much he had to watch it NOW.

Today, I finally got the chance to ask him about it.

I was bouncing on my toes, excited to be fangirling about my fave show with my own father. “What did you think, Dad?”

I didn’t expect him to get a little choked up. His next words blew my mind.

He said, “Sweetie, I’m old. Set in my ways. I was taught, and adhered to, a certain way that people should be with each other. I preached it, and I voted in light of it, and I taught it to you and your sister. But I watched this movie. And I watched these two men fall in love with each other. And the only thing I could think was, ‘These two souls are meant to be together’. Lawrence Gorodon and Adam Faulkner-Stanheight are… soulmates. Over my years as a pastor, I’ve seen couples get married.. And couples get divorced.. It happens. But I’ve never seen two people who were more perfectly designed to fit together, and it broke my heart to see it not happen for them. I’m sorry I’ve been such an ass.”

Given that it was a brave moment, I blurted out, “Dad, I’m gay.”

And he turned to me and smiled, tears in his eyes, and said, “Just… be happy.”

Don’t fret that the press “has yet to discover” the “subtext” inherent in Saw. Don’t fret that Leigh Whannell still denies it. Because if my Dad can see it, then it’s crystal clear. My almost-64-yr-old-Dad ships Chainshipping. My SOUTHERN BAPTIST PASTOR Dad ships Chainshipping.

To the point that he internalized change in his thinking about same-sex relationships, and happily accepted my (rather abrupt) coming out.

Keep the faith.

This ship has sailed; and my Dad, of ALL people, is right on fucking board.

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

Today in Christian History

Today is Tuesday, May 2nd, the 122nd day of 2023. There are 243 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

373: Death of Athanasius in Alexandria, Egypt. More than any other man, he took up the fight for Christ’s divinity in his writings. Five times he had been forced into exile. Slander dogged him. Yet he remained faithful to his vision of an uncreated Christ. He was the first to list the books of the New Testament as we know them.

1550: Joan Boucher is burned to death in England for denying that the Virgin Mary was sinless. When a bishop preached at her execution, trying to convert her, she told him he “lied like a rogue” and bade him “go and read the Scriptures.”

1852: Death in England of Samuel Leigh, who had been the first Methodist missionary to Australia and had also served in New Zealand.

1952: Death of Matrona of Moscow (Matryona Nikonova) who had been born blind and early showed an ability to prophesy. She had adhered to the faith of the Orthodox Church despite being rendered homeless by the Soviets, and people had concealed her whereabouts so that she was never arrested and sent to the Gulag. She will be named a saint by her church.

1982: Lin Xiangao (Samuel Lamb) is arrested in Guangzhou for holding house church services. He had already served two sentences in prison for resisting Chinese laws against giving religious instruction to the young and refusal to submit to the government-run Three Self Patriotic Church.

2008: A Muslim mob attacks the largely-Christian village of Horale, Indonesia, killing four Christians, wounding fifty-six, burning down three churches, the village school, and 120 homes.

2010: Roadside bombs explode and hit two buses filled with Christian students making their daily ride to the University of Mosul in Iraq. One hundred and sixty one are injured and Sandy Shabib will die from her injuries.

2011: Turkish authorities demolish the 200-year-old Greek Orthodox Chapel of Saint Thekla in Vokolida, Cyprus.

#Today in Christian History #May 2 #death of Samuel Leigh #Joan Boucher is burned to death #Death of Matrona of Moscow #A Muslim mob attacks the largely-Christian village of Horale #Death of Athanasius

[tsunflowers]

I don't want to talk about "a woman's touch" bc i think that's reductive and ultimately does a disservice to female authors. at the same time there's a certain sensitivity to leigh brackett's "the long tomorrow" that I don't often see in these kinds of post-apocalyptic novels where people are reduced to superstitious farmers leaving in fear of technology. but I guess it's silly to say I think ms beckett has a uniquely feminine approach when her protagonist len colter reminds me so much of ender from ender's game, without being the single specialest boy in the entire world. it's just that he has a quiet inner strength that keeps him going which I find appealing in a protagonist

in this vision of future America the most prosperous people are the "new mennonites" who didn't care for technology before bombs were dropped and adapted the most easily to a low-tech lifestyle. but they're fervently religious and disallow technology and scientific knowledge. our protagonist len and his reckless cousin esau escape this upbringing in hopes of reaching a city called "bartorstown" which is said to be just like a city from the pre-war days where they keep the old knowledge alive. of course when they finally reach it the city isn't the paradise they dreamed of and the beliefs they were raised with turn out to be harder to shake than they thought

I think it's a novel about how you have to believe in something to keep going in the world and people who can't have blind faith suffer. people of god and people of science are not that different after all. both can have their faith shattered and rekindled. it's a very human story in that way. it has all the things you expect from this kind of story with mob violence and preaching about how the nuclear bomb was sent by the devil and secret underground bunkers but it's very candid about also being about asking the question "why are people the way that they are?" I liked it a lot

#my book review corner

[protestantfaceofanglicanism]

John Wesley preached in this pulpit, at South Leigh in Oxfordshire.

[gellavonhamster]

monthly media recap: january 2023

(taking a page from @robertcapajpg‘s book)

read:

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling) - a 1996 anthology of short stories based on fairy tales. Many works seemed to me lacking something (and many I didn't like at all), but there were also several stories I really enjoyed, especially towards the end. Favourites include: The Fox Wife by Ellen Steiber, The Traveler and the Tale by Jane Yolen, The Printer's Daughter by Delia Sherman, The Emperor Who Had Never Seen a Dragon by John Brunner, Roach in Loafers by Roberta Lannes (yep, the last one is Puss-in-Boots but with a cockroach, and in modern-day New York)

Issues 4-6 of the Hellebore zine - I am honestly planning to order and read all currently existing issues over the course of this year, because the articles are really interesting - folk horror, archaeology, history, literature, and the intersection of all of these - and the art is beautiful. Also, I didn’t even pay for the first issue in the end, because I ordered it in October and by the very late December I was sure it got lost in the post, so I wrote to the store for a refund, and then the package came after all, I wrote to the store again asking how to return the money back to them, and they said that since the delivery took so long, I could keep it... if it was a clever plan to acquire another regular reader, then it totally worked, haha

The Stolen Heir by Holly Black - good! As always, love how Black paints the faerie world in all its whimsy and violence. I posted some of my thoughts on this book here.

Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo - I liked Ninth House, but I kinda forgot it existed and also forgot approximately 2/3 of the plot, so I certainly didn't expect to enjoy the sequel as much as I did! It's been a while since I stayed up late reading like that. I am once again pretty indifferent towards the main pairing, but friendships and teamwork and characters seeing and accepting each other's vulnerabilities and past sins really moved me. Also, loved the helpful ghosts and unexpected [other mythical creatures, spoiler]

+ I am also still making my way through Lancelot-Grail/the Vulgate Cycle; in January I read Part II and III of Lancelot, as well as The History of the Holy Grail (this one I mostly just skimmed through, quite frankly, sometimes skipping a page or two where someone’s just, like, praying or preaching for a very long time. I am probably not very smart and definitely not religious enough for this)

watched:

The Musketeers (s1-3, 2014–2016) - well, you know, what with me obnoxiously reblogging gifs of it, lol. First things first, this is not an accurate adaptation of Dumas's novel, it's a very ahistorical procedural/western combo set in the 17th century France, and it fucking rules. I mean, swashbuckling adventures, the Power of Friendship™, women in stays and corsets, men in those puffy pirate shirts sluttily undone. Catering to my tastes personally. Season 3 was not as good as the first two, but what you're gonna do

Glass Onion (2022) - I think I enjoyed Knives Out more, but this one also was a lot of fun! Guessed some plot twists, but some were a total surprise to me. Love how the pandemic was integrated into the plot and characterization (e.g., a mesh mask says it all)

El vampiro (1957) - a Mexican horror film about a family targeted by a vampire that covets their estate. Very obviously influenced by the 1931 Dracula and weirdly cute in the way old horror often is (must be the toy bats on strings, though here could also be the romance).

The Field Guide to Evil (2018) - a horror anthology based on myth and folklore from around the world. The first two stories set a strong beginning, but then most of them (except the second-to-last, though the last one also is worth mentioning for being perfectly stylized after the classic silent films alone) fail to do something truly interesting with what they’re based on, in my opinion.

#talk talk talk #monthly media recap #3/4 of this post is copied from my twitter threads and i apologize to those of you who have already read this

[beautifulcyclone]

“So once you have money, once you can stop clinging to the rock and can climb atop it, what will you build there? When you stand upon the rock, what will you preach?”

Leigh Bardugo , The ninth house

#the ninth house #quotes #book quotes #bookworm #Leigh Bardugo #booklover

[wutbju]

It is with heavy hearts we announce the passing of James Hartley Young (Jim) on October 17, 2023, in Sebring, Florida, at the age of 90. Jim was born on February 25, 1933, to Edwin and Elizabeth Young in Plymouth, Massachusetts and was the youngest of eight children.

After graduating from Bob Jones University in 1955, Jim began his 27-year military career as a chaplain in the United States Army. In the military he was awarded the Senior Parachutist Badge with the 82nd Airborne Division and the Bronze Star with the 20th Engineer Brigade in Vietnam. He also served with the 1st Cavalry Division, Korea; the 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, KS; Special Operations Command, Okinawa; and was in the 5th Signal Command, Germany. From 1970-1975 Jim was Chief of the Course Development Branch, Deputy Director of Correspondence Courses and Chief of Military History Writing Team at the U.S. Army Chaplain Center and School at both Fort Hamilton and Fort Wadsworth, New York. While stationed at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington he was the Chief of the Department of Ministry and Pastoral Care. Over the course of his military career he earned numerous medals, citations and awards. He retired full colonel in 1982. But ever the patriot, Jim requested to be re-instated during the 1990's Gulf War. He was disappointed with being denied because of age.

Jim had a love for education and spent most of his adult life as a student. While serving in the Army he earned seven Masters degrees: an MA in Clinical Psychology, MA in Counseling Psychology, MST in Sacred Theology, MA Political Science, MA Journalism, THM Theology and MDiv Divinity. He also completed four doctorates: Doctor of Theology, Doctor of Political Science, Doctor of Ministry, and Doctor of Clinical Psychology.

While working on his last doctorate his wife, Janis, passed away. A year and a half later he met and married his second wife, Dolores Mallery Pies.

Preaching was the foremost of Jim's passions. The Conservative Baptist Association of America ordained him in 1956 in Middleboro, Massachusetts, and from that time on he endeavored to be in the pulpit at every opportunity. From serving as a U.S. Army Chaplain on the front lines in Vietnam to being an interim pastor at numerous local churches, Jim's desire was to be serving his Lord in ministry.

After retiring from the Army, he taught 17 different undergraduate and graduate courses at Bob Jones University in the span of just four years. He then moved to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and founded Christian Therapy Services where he as a clinical psychologist spent many years counseling and helping individuals who were experiencing spiritual, emotional or psychological battles. After the 9/11 attack, he volunteered and served as counselor to survivors in New York City.

Jim was an avid athlete, excelling in basketball, handball, swimming and tennis. He also loved music, especially the old hymns, and even took up playing the violin at the age of 68. He loved animals and had chickens, dogs, cows and a horse on his mini-farm in Gettysburg, PA. And nothing made the end of his day better than having a big bowl of ice cream, a love that he passed on to his many grandchildren!

Jim was preceded in death by his first wife, Janis Swanson Young, grandson Jason Robert Dayhoff, stepdaughter Lorrie Pies, and all his siblings. He is survived by his wife, Dolores Mallery Pies Young, and four children; James Young, Jr. (Mary Anne), Julia Young Fremont (Gil), Jorai Young Dayhoff (Bob) and Joy Young Bates (Tim). He is also survived by two stepsons; Kevin Pies (Lisi) and Jeff Pies (Leigh), 14 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren, six step-grandchildren and two step-great grandchildren. He was a beloved husband, father, grandfather and uncle and will be sorely missed by all who knew him.

Funeral will be on October 25, 2023. Feel free to send flowers; or better yet, honor his heart for preaching the gospel by donating money in his name to a gospel preaching or missions outreach ministry.

#Bob Jones University #BJU Hall of Fame #2023 #Obituary #BJU Alumni Association #Class of 1955 #James Hartley Young

[the-randomness-and-fandomness]

Leigh calling out all the Mal haters 😂

#preach Leigh #leigh bardugo #malyen oretsev #mal oretsev #shadow and bone #six of crows #grishaverse

[lady-plantagenet]

“Philosophical thinkers have generally come to the conclusion that the tendency of progress is gradually to dispense with law,—that is to say, as each individual man becomes unto himself a law, less external restraint is necessary. And certainly the most urgently needed reforms are simple erasures from the statute book. Women, more than any other members of the community, suffer from over‐legislation.”

- Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, ‘A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women; Together with a Few Observations Thereon ‘ (1854)

#ex honore de queue #PREACH SISTER #barbara leigh smith bodichon #a pioneer of the married women property act 1870 #quotes #I like this take and it needs to be proposed more

[lil-patchouli]

...maybe being brave didn’t mean being unafraid.

Leigh Bardugo, (Crooked Kingdom)

#crooked kingdom #leigh bardugo #soc #soc duology #wylan van eck #my boy wylan preaching the choir #eva reads #quotes #ya quotes #six of crows

[wreaths-of-myrtle-and-rose]

Six of Crows Fancast

Jesper Fahey // Wylan Van Eck // Jan Van Eck

Keiynan Lonsdale as the living embodiment of sin Jesper Fahey

the Zemeni sharpshooter was long-limbed, brown-skinned, constantly in motion.

he held a grudge about as well as he held his liquor.

he felt free, dangerous, like lightning rolling over the prairie.

Ben Whishaw as Wylan Van Sunshine Wylan Van Eck

you’re passable at demo. you’re excellent at hostage.

whatever it took to survive the Barrel, Wylan knew he didn’t have it.

in the end, he was just Wylan Van Eck. he told them everything.

Matthew Goode as the merch Jan Van Eck

you know me, then?

Van Eck began to laugh - a warm, almost jovial chuckle, but its edges were jagged and bitter.

break her legs.

#six of crows #soc #leigh bardugo #six of crows duology #not an edit #just my wild fandom ramblings #keiynan lonsdale #ben whishaw #matthew goode #i know the hair color is wrong for the van ecks and im sorry #so what if ben and matthew are almost the same age #just let me have this #keiynan's preach video really started this whole thing so he's to blame #this post took hours off my life dear god #fancast #my fancast #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #jan van eck

[bollyswood]

today it was revealed that a white woman in brownface was amita suman’s stunt double in shadow and bone. 

at a time when hollywood is preaching to stop aapi hate the show has shown us, twice so far, that they don't care about our community. by having a south asian coded character make racist remarks towards an east asian coded character they added nothing to the plot or character development- all they did was try to create a divide between our communities. this hurt more especially because zoya was never racist in the books.

they condoned putting a stuntwoman in brownface because they couldn't be bothered to find a desi stuntwoman for amita. there are truly so many talented desi dancers and acrobats out there but shadow and bone refused to cast accurately solely because stuntwomen are supposed to show up in blurry or fast moving shots, making it "easier" to rely on brownface. this speaks volumes about how much they care about diversity.

for a show that has been praised for representation and diversity and was going to mean so much for asian viewers, shadow and bone failed to deliver time and time again, showing us that all we can count on when it comes to south asian representation in hollywood is constant disrespect and racism.

netflix and leigh bardugo along with the rest of the showrunners and writers marketed the show as being a diverse fantasy but were surrounded by a team that approved brownface should tell you all you need to know about how much they respected desi people in the first place. so many south asians were excited to finally see themselves onscreen in inej and zoya, especially as the show was praised by reviewers and writers as being diverse and accurate representation and this is what we got.

amita was so excited to play inej, a strong brown woman whose identity was not solely defined by her race and i can’t imagine how she felt watching a white woman paint herself brown so that she could perform stunts that amita had trained for as well. if anything, this proves that hollywood’s pushing of diversity on screen does nothing to help poc and representation unless that same diversity exists behind the camera.

#aashna.txt #s&b #inej ghafa #amita suman #racism tw #shadow and bone

[blessedarethebinarybreakers]

Books full of affirmation for LGBTQA+ / Queer Christians

In Jesus, God came to earth to show us once and for all that God is on the side of the oppressed, the criminalized, the shamed. But in cultures poisoned through with cisheteronormativity, it’s easy to wallow in messages of hate that aim to drown out God’s good news of liberation and love.

Luckily, there are so many people out there telling stories, making art, creating websites, writing books, preaching and teaching and dancing and singing out the good news that God doesn’t only tolerate our queerness, but delights in it!

If you wander through my #affirmation tag, you’ll find a lot of internet content around God’s love for and celebration LGBTQA+ persons. You might also find my FAQ page helpful to that end. But a few people have asked me to compile books on that topic, so that’s what this post is for! 

Contents under the readmore: 

Books that argue against anti-LGBT theologies and present LGBT-affirming theologies 

Memoirs & anthologies of LGBTQA+ perspectives

Books of poetry by LGBT/queer Christian writers

Books that argue against anti-LGBT theologies and present & argue for LGBT-affirming theologies

OtherWise Christian: A Guidebook for Transgender Liberation by Chris Paige — This book attempts to make academic stuff more accessible and easier to read (along with updating older texts’ language). It “reviews 25 years of transgender-affirming biblical scholarship" to assert “that the Bible shows us story after story of OtherWise-gendered people being used by God to further the kingdom. Yet, we have been bamboozled by a restrictive gender ideology that is aligned with empire, white supremacy and Christian supremacy. Jesus and our biblical ancestors invite us to join a gender-full resistance!” .

Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians by Austen Hartke — an even easier read than the previous book, theology is interspersed with witness:  “Weaving biblical examples of gender nonconformity and transformation with the stories and voices of contemporary trans Christians, Hartke’s approach is both pastoral and prophetic as he addresses harmful Christian theology that has been used to further marginalize and exclude trans people. “Hartke’s scriptural basis for a trans-affirming theology offers a healing balm for queer and trans people who have ever questioned that God loves them based on ‘what it says in the Bible,’ while challenging progressive Christian communities to center trans perspectives in their efforts to become truly open and affirming.” .

(About the two books above: pick Paige’s book if you want aaaall the trans theology and don’t mind a slightly more academic feel; pick Hartke’s book if you want a briefer overview of trans theology with more storytelling.) .

Bad Theology Kills: Undoing Toxic Belief and Reclaiming Your Spiritual Authority by Kevin Garcia — "[Kevin Garcia] believed that God could never love them because they were queer, leading to a deadly shame that nearly took Kevin's life. Kevin felt trapped by fear. Fear of losing their community, their family, and even their connection to God. “That is until Kevin changed their mind, finally hearing the voice of the Spirit calling them to believe something better, and to step in to truly abundant life.Through personal experience, classical theological devices, and a fair bit of profanity, Kevin dives into some of the most common toxic belief patterns that are killing our communities, showing you how to undo them, and how to create new, better theology to lead you back to your spiritual authority.” .

Queerfully and Wonderfully Made: A Guide for LGBTQ+ Christian Teens edited by Leigh Finke — this book is made for teens, but I think that anyone who wants an easy-to-read overview of lots of LGBTQ+ basics could greatly benefit from this book.  Content includes advice for when you’re questioning, pondering whether to come out, fearing discrimination / rejection from loved ones, dealing with anxiety and depression; unpacking anti-LGBT church stuff & presenting affirming theology (including “queer icons of Christianity); tips for “queering your community”; and a whole bunch of other stuff! In this book, “You'll get insight and support from an amazing group of LGBTQ+ professionals, as well as testimonies from young adult queer Christians who've recently been exactly where you are. You'll walk away with a lot of answers, prepared with tools to help. But most importantly, you'll hear the good news: God loves you exactly as you are.”

Welcoming and Affirming: A Guide to Supporting & Working with LGBTQ+ Christian Youth — the companion text to the previous book! “A handbook for pastors, youth workers, church leaders, educators, and other adults in Christian settings, the book provides answers to the most pressing questions about sexuality, gender, mental health, safe sex, and more.” .

Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity by Rev. Elizabeth Edman — the author is a lesbian Episcopal priest. “Edman posits that Christianity, at its scriptural core, incessantly challenges its adherents to rupture false binaries, to “queer” lines that pit people against one another. Thus, Edman asserts that Christianity, far from being hostile to queer people, is itself inherently queer. ...Lively and impassioned, Edman proposes that queer experience be celebrated as inherently valuable, ethically virtuous, and illuminating the sacred.” .

Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology by Pamela Lightsey — this one’s more academic. This book “uses the tenor of the 2014 national protests that emerged as a response to excessive police force against Black people to frame the book as following the discursive tradition of liberation theologies broadly speaking and womanist theology specifically. “Using a womanist methodological approach, Pamela R. Lightsey helps readers explore the impact of oppression against Black LBTQ women while introducing them to the emergent intellectual movement known as queer theology.” You can watch a YouTube interview with Pamela Lightsey about this book here.

Memoirs & Anthologies of LGBTQA+ Perspectives

Trans-Forming Proclamation: A Transgender Theology of Daring Existence by Liam Hooper — The memoir-mixed-with-theology of a trans man who graduated from Christian seminary and converted to Judaism. "Hooper demonstrates his love of both the Hebrew language and the wisdom of nature itself, bouncing back and forth between the insights gleaned from his beloved Grandma Daught and sacred texts dear to both Jewish and Christian traditions." .

Does Jesus Really Love Me? by Jeff Chu — this book incorporates a sense of humor as it covers serious topics. It’s “part memoir and part investigative analysis that explores the explosive and confusing intersection of faith, politics, and sexuality in Christian America.  From Brooklyn to Nashville to California, from Westboro Baptist Church...to the pioneering Episcopalian bishop Mary Glasspool...Chu captures spiritual snapshots of Christian America at a remarkable moment, when tensions between both sides in the culture wars have rarely been higher. .

OtherWise Christian 2: Stories of Resistance edited by Chris Paige — an anthology of personal reflections, drawing on both classic articles and new content from contemporary trans, nonbinary, intersex, and otherwise gender nonconforming authors

Poetry collections by LGBT/queer writers that explore God’s love & solidarity with us

Queering Lent by Slats Toole — poems by a nonbinary Christian minister exploring their journey through religious trauma into God’s queer embrace. You can find some of the poems from this collection in my #slats tag. .

The Backwater Sermons by Jay Hulme — poems by a trans “poet, performer, educator, and speaker with a love of ancient church buildings that led him to a sudden and life-changing encounter with the God he had never believed in.” .

The Kin(g)dom in the Rubble by Avery Arden (previously Avery Smith) — (oh gee, that’s me!) “This collection of 38 poems envisions a world turned on its head by the incoming reign of a queer God – a reign so close we inhale it with every breath, yet so distant it might well take a billion years more to fully immerse us. These poems wrestle with God, humanity, and the Bible from a queer and trans perspective, drawing from the author's Catholic and Presbyterian backgrounds to do so. “Scripture and science, nature and personal experience mingle together in the text as bitterness melts into expectant joy and wounds yield unimaginable blessings.” You can find some of the poems included in this book on my website here. .

Tree by SJ Blasko — Tree is “a collection of poetry that explores what it means to be in community, in faith, and in love.”

#queer christians #faithfullylgbt #affirmation #books #recs #list #long post

[alexcollix7]

Ok but we NEED to talk about this interview with Leigh Bardugo and SJM. The interviewer asks what character is their favourite from each other's series, and Sarah answers Mal is her favourite in shadow and bone because "he is so hot" and "makes her sweaty".

Now, Mal is between the ages of 17 and 18 in the trilogy, just like Alina. This interview was 5 years ago, and Sarah was 30. So, basically this is a 30 year old grown woman talking about feeling attracted to a character while he is literally a teenager in the books. This, when most of her work is targeted as YA and sold for actual teens.

What makes it even worse is that Leigh opened up about being a victim of SA as a child not long ago. She's there having to listen to an adult YA writer go off about how she feels sexually attracted to her teen character.

She laughs but she seems to be unconfortable, then follows with a "isn't she classy" in a tone that doesn't actually suggested it being the case.

Don't come at me with "he is just a character" or "he doesn't exist" thing. Yeah, is obvious Mal doesn't exist, but the point is that she still imagines him as a teen in her head and feels attracted to that image. Leigh writed Mal and Alina as teenagers/kids because that's what they were. If that was a man in his 30s saying he though 17-18 Alina was "super hot" and talking about him sweating thinking about her, I bet there would be a lot more people talking about it. I'm just not ok with an author who writes for teens talking about feeling something for one, even if he is fictional, because the idea she has on her mind of him and is drawn to is still of a child.

I'm not trying to cancel her or anything, but I don't want to hear people asking why Leigh stopped being friends with Sarah after a while. And this is not the first time that someothing of this nature happened. There was also the whole soap thing, that they tried to brush under the rugs, together with the fact that her books should have been always targeted as adult and not YA considering their content, even her ex best friend Susan Dennard talked about this (which I want so say preach since not every author talks about those things). I'm also tired of seeing adults talking about having attraction towards teenagers and everybody pretending like is normal, when it truly isn't, in any type of context.

#anti sjm #leigh bardugo #mal oretsev #alina starkov #genyalina #zoyalina #shadow and bone #anti sarah j maas #malina #malyen oretsev #malyen x alina #mal x alina #anti rhysand #anti feyre #anti acotar #anti acowar #anti acomaf #anti sarah janet #nikolai duology #hanne brum #genya safin #anti darklina #anti acosf #the ninth house #alex stern #anti azriel #anti cassian #anti ic