1. 23:26 16th Jun 2013

    Notes: 4

    Reblogged from myadventuresinoddity

    myadventuresinoddity:

    Really good, really short post about Tradition within the Church. 

    The author (an Eastern Orthodox priest in the OCA) speaks of Tradition as a “dynamic, creative, vivifying and renewing [that] keeps people focused on the goal – where God is leading us to, not the past and where we were.   Tradition is not the ship’s anchor, but its sail.   It consists not of repeating past teachings, but of interpreting God’s Word for the current generation.”

    Those words were quite a blessing.  Recently I’ve felt that Tradition, Dogma, Doctrine, etc. were confining and constricting; legalistic rules that existed as thing in and of themselves (I think I began to feel this way because of the way tradition, dogma, and doctrine were being represented in various readings. Honestly, Rob Bell AND this post helped get me past such a negative view of the Tradition and Dogma of the Church).  This post, however, reminds me that the teachings of the Church are intended to be, first and foremost, life giving! They have their origin in the person of Jesus Christ who is the source of life.  

    Really good post. 

     
  2. 23:19

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    Reblogged from born-to-broken-people

    platea:

    A Modern Hair Study by Tara Bogart

     
  3. 14:49

    Notes: 164

    Reblogged from born-to-broken-people

    Tags: lol

    Avatar Father's Day

    1. Ozai: Why hasn't Zuko called me yet?
    2. Ozai:
    3. Ozai: Oh right. He's banished.
     
  4. 14:47

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    Reblogged from afternovels

    IV. There is a certain kind of girl who reads Lolita at fourteen and finds religion. I painted my eyes black and sucked barroom cherries to red my tongue. There was a boy who promised Judas really did love Jesus. I learned early every kiss and betrayal are up for interpretation.
     
  5. 14:31

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    Reblogged from wespeakfortheearth

    …you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.
     
  6. 14:29

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    Reblogged from mothernaturenetwork

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    mothernaturenetwork:

Don’t throw out that pickle juiceTurns out that brine can punch up your potato salad, take the edge off onions and even make a good sports drink. Want more? How about as a whiskey chaser?

    mothernaturenetwork:

    Don’t throw out that pickle juice
    Turns out that brine can punch up your potato salad, take the edge off onions and even make a good sports drink. Want more? How about as a whiskey chaser?

     
  7. 14:26

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    Reblogged from amaneciera

    He loved her in a subtle kind of way. It wasn’t the kind of love you see in movies, with swelling music and giant gestures and running through the streets to catch a departing train. It wasn’t the kind of love that Byron or Shakespeare wrote about, with flowery language and hyperbole and iambic pentameter. It was still and deep, like water that you might mistake for shallow if you just watched the surface. It was entirely his, not dependent on her own feelings for him, and it would still be there whether she, or him, or everyone else on the world disappeared. It was a subtle kind of love, but it was true.
    — Jake Christie, Small Stories (via creatingaquietmind)

    (Source: larmoyante)

     
  8. 14:24

    Notes: 86

    Reblogged from agayepiscopalian

    This is the table, not of the Church, but of the Lord. It has been made ready for those who love him and who want to love him more. So, come, you who have much faith and you who have little, you who have been here often and you who have not been for a long time, you who have tried to follow and you who have failed. Come, it is our Lord who invites you.
    — The Book of Alternative Services, to be said before distribution of the Eucharist. (via agayepiscopalian)
     
  9. 14:23

    Notes: 59

    Reblogged from anglo-catholic

    Tags: I LOVE MY DENOMINATION

    Are you Scripture? Because you moveth me in sundry places.
    — The ultimate Anglican pick up line, courtesy of Twitchuponathread (via anglo-catholic)
     
  10. 14:08

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    Reblogged from filosofiadellareligione

    Keep, O Lord, your household the Church in your steadfast faith and love, that through your grace we may proclaim your truth with boldness, and minister your justice with compassion; for the sake of our Savior Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
    — Proper 6 (via filosofiadellareligione)
     
  11. 19:20 15th Jun 2013

    Notes: 67

    Reblogged from blankslate

    blankslate:

    what is it like to feel feelings at an “average” level?

    whta is it like to not just feel either everything to the Xtreme or nothing at all

    genuinely curious bc i dont know

     
  12. 16:46

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    Reblogged from thenewwomensmovement

    I think we can all recognize that the ‘it’s a joke excuse’ is the most dismissive, self-righteous loophole, created by those who refuse to examine their power, and assume they have not only the right to say whatever they want to people, but the right to control how other people react to what they have said.
     
  13. 16:41

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    Reblogged from wespeakfortheearth

    Old-growth forests, polycropping, and agriculture with open-pollinated landraces may not be as productive, in the short run, as single species forests and fields or identical hybrids. But they are demonstrably more stable, more self-sufficient, and less vulnerable to epidemics and environmental stress…Every time we replace ‘natural capital’ (such as wild fish stocks or old-growth forests) with what might be termed ‘cultivated natural capital’ (such as fish farms or tree plantations), we gain ease of appropriation and in immediate productivity, but at the cost of more maintenance expenses and less ‘redundancy, resiliency, and stability’…Other things being equal…the less diverse the cultivated natural capital, the more vulnerable and nonsustainable it becomes. The problem is that in most economic systems, the external costs (in water or air pollution, for example, or the exhaustion of non-renewable resources, including a reduction in biodiversity) accumulate long before the activity becomes unprofitable in a narrow profit-and-loss sense.
    — James Scott, Seeing like a State (via perscientiamlibertas)
     
  14. 16:40

    Notes: 149

    Reblogged from riotgrrrlsarenotdead

    FLOYD’S VERY COOL

    FLOYD’S VERY COOL

    (Source: noodle212)

     
  15. 16:34

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    Reblogged from afreake