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According to Tertullian, the outsiders looked at the Christians and saw them energetically feeding poor people and burying them, caring for boys and girls who lacked property and parents, and being attentive to aged slaves and prisoners. They interpreted these actions as a “work of love.” And they said, “Vide, look! How they love one another.” They did not say, “Aude, listen to the Christians’ message”; they did not say, “Lege, read what they write.” Hearing and reading were important, and some early Christians worked to communicate in these ways too. But we must not miss the reality: the pagans said look! Christianity’s truth was visible; it was embodied and enacted by its members.

Alan Kreider, The Patient Ferment of the Early Church

#christianity #early church #early christianity #tertullian

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lady-isabella-farnham

Hey guys, check out my impression of Christ our Lord!!! *cares deeply about my fellow man and participates in things that positively affect my community*

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apenitentialprayer

The Orthodox tradition of thinking of marriage as a 'martyrdom' may sound grim to contemporary Western (and Romantic) ears, but it seems to me to encode some profound theological insight. Marriage is indeed both a public 'witness' (martyr) and also, inevitably, the commitment to some form of loss, suffering, and transformation in relation and adjustment to the 'other'. Both these modes of 'witness'/martyrdom may of course be christologically conceived.

- Sarah Coakley (The New Asceticism: Sexuality, Gender, and the Search for God, note 12 on pages 140-141)

Members of the Bulgarian Orthodox faithful celebrating their wedding ceremony in Rome. (x)

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thesilicontribesman

Roman Depiction of Christ, Hinton St Mary, The British Museum, London

This is the central roundel of a 4th-century CE mosaic floor from a villa at Hinton St Mary. Dorset. It is one of the most important early Christian remains from the Roman Empire.

The roundel is probably the earliest known mosaic picture of Christ. It is the focal point of the main floor in the position usually occupied by a figure of a pagan god or goddess. However, the Greek letters X and P (chi and rho) behind the head indicate that the person is probably Christ. They are the first two letters of the word Christ in Greek and the usual symbol of early Christianity. At either side are pomegranates, signalling immortality.

#early christianity #church art #mosaic

set-apart-path

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Romans 12:1

#scripture #christianity #bible #new testament #saint paul

“We need to embrace the principle that the local brotherhood is the visible part of the Bride of Christ that we are directly accountable to… It is in the context of the local church that we are able to participate in the marriage feast of the Lamb. If we carefully and seriously study church history, I think we find many examples to caution us against the teaching that our commitment is [exclusively] to God and a church denomination and that the local brotherhood is optional.”

Submitted by an anonymous layman to the January 2025 issue of Family Life (Pathway Publishers)

#christianity #church #anabaptist

prayerandzoloft

i suppose that one of my most unpopular opinions is that christianity - in it’s most liberating & progressive forms - does require a lifelong commitment to self-sacrifice. you are called, like Christ, to burn yourself in order to keep others warm.

i’m not a fan of the modern idea of “cheap grace,” which scoffs at things like undeserved forgiveness. you are called to forgive the worst people you know, even if it takes a lifetime.

while grace is abundant, free, and gentle - we find the example of Christ condescending himself to live among the “least of these,” suffering and dying - and calling his followers to do the same.

christ’s mercy never waned for those followers who walked away, but many did walk away once the calling became difficult.

while a lot of the language of “discipline” and “discipleship” gets misapplied by conservative christians to tie heavy burdens onto others, i think it’s a mistake as a progressive/leftist believers to ignore the fact that following Christ can certainly require intense levels of personal discomfort and difficult work.

yet, we don’t suffer alone.

#self sacrifice #discipline #discipleship

descensos

Truly not a single earthly pleasure can satisfy our heart. We are strangers on earth, pilgrims and travelers; our home and fatherland are there in heaven, in the heavenly Kingdom; and there do not exist on earth things which could perfectly satisfy our desires. Let a man own the whole world and all that is in the world, yet all that will not interest him for more than a minute, so to speak, and it will never satisfy his heart: for the heart of man can be fully satisfied only by the love of God and therefore God alone can fill the heart and soul of man and quench the thirst of his desires.

St. Innocent of Alaska

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gwendolynlerman

Tag 10 people (or as many as you want! the more the better) that made your Tumblr experience this year better. Btw, it doesn't only have to be mutuals, it can also be people that interact with your posts a lot/that you follow!

Tagged by @fluencylevelfrench 💜

Thank you to @babushkoshka, @fluencylevelfrench, @haxyr3, @guillemelgat, @linghxr, @mapsontheweb, @mapsontheweb, @mediocrelanguagelearner, @pawprintedpages, @slavic-roots-western-mind, and @zoueriemandzijnopmars!

deedsandcreeds

@queerprayers @chatwiththeclouds @many-sparrows @lady-merian @proseandpsalms

joan-frommars

gentle reminder that struggling with depression or anxiety or mental illnesses in general does not make you less of a Christian.

stripedroseandsketchpads

God doesn’t hate you. Sometimes when you’re experiencing symptoms (depression, anxiety, intrusive/scrupulosity thoughts) it may feel like it, but your brain is wrong.

God doesn’t hate you.

greenleavesandwarmbreezes

#He gets it He is Holding you He is holding you to His chest and weeping with you#He is defending you against the enemy He is caring for you like Aragorn in the halls of healing in RotK#ichthys#evil is always from the enemy. God sends reinforcements constantly. we jusy sometimes tell them to leave

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silenceandpsalms

"The hope God offers us is this: he will keep close to us, even in darkness, in doubt, in fear and vulnerability. He does not promise to keep bad things from happening. He does not promise that night will not come, or that it will not be terrifying, or that we will immediately be tugged to shore. He promises that we will not be left alone. He will keep watch with us in the night."

- Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night

#hope #fear

u-stanovima-vecnim

If you watch nature documentaries, isolation is the near universal strategy predators use to catch their prey. The easy example is when lions chase zebras; they only succeed when they can get one of the herd alone, and then the pride all descend on the lone zebra (there's a somewhat pseudo-intellectual tie-in to the word "pride", but that's overly anglocentric). We all know what happens next, it's unnecessary to go into detail there.

But the devil does the same thing to us -- the temptation to "go it alone", to individualize our faith or praxis, I think it puts us in the same position and subject to roughly the same fate. Our enemy will lie and encourage a sort of false-piety, along with the typical emotions, to get us alone: "I don't need church or confession, I have my prayer book", but also "I've been away too long, I could never show my face there." This is also where the impulse to drive people out, to scandalize, to "throw into the deep end" comes from -- those of us on the more fortunate end can't think we're above being, like the zebra who trips the smaller member of the herd, tools of this same scheme.

As in nature, there's safety in numbers and peril in isolation.

#christianity #church #community

gayleviticus

'christ the king is problematic' i find a very disappointing take because it seems to ignore the fact that the gospel readings for it are already some kind of ironic take on kingship - a man dying on a cross, a king who grants glory by how the nations treated the least of these, an accused man in the dock with the arrogance of claiming he has a kingdom, just not of this world.

and it seems far more interesting to me to lean into 'yes, christ is a king in a weird upside-down way' than trying to skip the subversion and rush to 'king is problematic monarchical language' or w/e

#christianity #christian #christ the king #kingdom #defying expectations

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laurelindorenan

Just heard yet another person (a preacher!) say “well, I love Jesus, but I struggle with Paul” and so I’m here to say that Paul is my dude. Paul is my buddy. Paul is my favorite little guy.

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