The Word in Black and Red Pod

The Word in Black and Red Pod

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Welcome to the Word in Black and Red, where we read the Bible from a leftist and liberationist perspective to elucidate the way people of faith and their comrades can understand the Bible as a source of healing, love, and liberation for all people. #thewordinblackandred #christianityisleftist #left

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SapphicSelene
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All of that to say, even though I am a pacifist uwu soft girl Christian, the last plague was basically "Hey Pharoah, you think you control all of life and death as King? Fuck you:

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SapphicSelene
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I heard a convincing argument from @twibar.bsky.social that the ten plagues of Egypt was God symbolically defeating the various Egyptian gods in battle. "Oh, you think the Nile God gives you life? Fuck you, the Nile is dead. You worship Ra the sun? Fuck you, Egypt is in darkness."

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The state was the tool used to murder God. For Christians, any conversation about the legitimacy of the state to hold any power, especially that of life and death, must begin and end with that fact.

Rev. Benjamin Cremer@brcremer.bsky.social

Imagine claiming to follow Jesus who was publicly executed and then glorifying public executions by wanting to live stream them.

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Fun fact: If you look at all the different options in the Book of Common Prayer for the basic liturgy of a Rite II Eucharist, the purely statistical odds of any two parish services using the identical choices is 137,625,600 to 1. ⚓

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Fun fact: If you look at all the different options in the Book of Common Prayer for the basic liturgy of a Rite II Eucharist, the purely statistical odds of any two parish services using the identical choices is 137,625,600 to 1. ⚓

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But I think one of the beautiful parts of our church is the many gifts we offer within the confines of the rules. A puzzle is more fun to put together when you have the border. You play in a sandbox because there is a box in which to not lose the sand. AND

The Word in Black and Red Pod
@twibar.bsky.social

Fun fact: If you look at all the different options in the Book of Common Prayer for the basic liturgy of a Rite II Eucharist, the purely statistical odds of any two parish services using the identical choices is 137,625,600 to 1. ⚓

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I brought up James Farwell's point in Ritual Excellence that there are so many different options already available to us in the prayer book that in reality, despite praying out of the same book, no two Episcopal services are *actually* identical.

The Word in Black and Red Pod
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Fun fact: If you look at all the different options in the Book of Common Prayer for the basic liturgy of a Rite II Eucharist, the purely statistical odds of any two parish services using the identical choices is 137,625,600 to 1. ⚓

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My discernment internship priest was lamenting the fact that we probably won't get a new BCP anytime soon because he fears there aren't enough poets and theologians trained up to write liturgy. I suggested that we needed to start training folks, and he said, "Good, you should do that."

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One of the major detriments of the English language is the way our emotions are separated out from the physical sensations causing the emotion. Hangry is a great word because it identifies both the feeling and its source. I propose the following:

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They Call Me Doctor Mae
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Debating the "existence" of God: -pointless -boring -antithetical to a religion based on faith itself Debating whether or not communion by intinction is simply a variation on "chips and salsa" -invigorating -a bold new frontier for discourse -you get drunk the more you do it

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I suppose where I really come down on this is that I don't think you can actually be orthodox and exclusive. You can't preach the God of love and then use that faith to justify hating people. That is heresy.

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You can be orthodox and exclusive (for example, Catholics). You can be heterodox and exclusive (for example, Jehovah's Witnesses). You can be heterodox and inclusive (for example, Unitarian Universalists). But you can also be orthodox and inclusive, which is the balance the Episcopal Church seeks.

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I worry sometimes whether being open about the fact that I am a Christian universalist renders me unorthodox. Then I remember that the folks who shaped orthodoxy believed so fervently in the divinity & humanity of Christ that they couldn't help but become universalists because of their orthodoxy.

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"Inclusive orthodoxy" feels like a dog whistle. I don't mean to be suspicious of the phrase, but I feel the same way about some American piskies identifying not as simply "Episcopalian," but specifically "Anglican." I would love to learn more from those who use the term about what it means to you. ⚓