Mother Deer Mother

I happened to find this video clip in my face book feed this

morning.


As you might imagine this image took my breath away.


The contrast between the cold ritualized church and the pagan

wildness of the animal speaks about the state of my soul.




You can read more about The Mother in Her female reindeer 

garb here.

No Sacraments for You, Faggots

The Sojourner

Did anyone notice?

The world wide Anglican Church this week 
has upheld the traditional version of marriage 
as a sacrament between men and women.


And they have taken some toys away from 
the American Episcopalian Church for actually daring to assume that God loves all of Her Children.


Not too many people care one way or the other.

But for those of us who do care my comment, after pondering this issue deeply, is this:



What the frick is wrong with these people?

Baptism and The Episcopagen

"The Conversation", oil pastels

Sometimes you read something that readjusts 

your thinking.

 

You know, the way one of those old Kodak 

viewfinders moved you  onto a new picture 

when you pushed down the lever at the side.

I just read Martha T.'s blog about baptism.

(link here)

I really like the analogy of finding God in the 

shit.  Jungians believe that is the path to 

individuation and I have to say that I agree.  

I don't see individuation as a goal.  At least 

not for me - the pile of shit I have to integrate 

will take 1000 lifetimes to work through.

It's a process.

But her words got me thinking about baptism 

and what it could possibly mean to an 

Episcopagan.

Is it enough to know that such ideas as Martha's 

are floating about beneath the rigid veneer of 

the church?  I don't know if it makes me feel 

any more warm and fuzzy about Christianity but 

I am grateful that at least in 2016 she won't be 

burned at the stake ...

because such ideas give me hope.

Merry Christmas

If someone was to ask me what my favourite 

childhood book had been I would tell them it was 

"Hurlbut's Story of the Bible" by the Rev. J. Hurlbut.

Hurlbut strikes me as an amusing name now but in 

1959 in my part of the world the sound of the word 

'but' didn't conjure up pictures of bare bottoms - it 

was still just a conjunction.

Anyway I read those Bible stories over and over and 

over.

And I still love them. 

I especially love the story of a baby who brings 

hope to a weary world and is born of a virgin mother 

on the winter solstice and is visited by angels,

shepherds and wise men who were led 

by a Star.

It just doesn't get much better than that.

And so with my own heart full of hope I wish 

everyone joy and peace this Christmas season.

The Horrified Christ

Cree girls fishing

Should the Anglican Church be allowed to raise money to bring running water to our indigenous communities that are presently without water or sewage?

I guess that question doesn't matter because they already are according to a blog I read recently.

And it isn't the only church doing so.

Although I agree with the writer/priest that the spirit is moving across the land I'm not sure the churches are listening to Her.

Yes fresh water will bring many health benefits and certainly bring dignity to anyone who aspires to our white level of deodorized and sanitized bodies.

But if Christians insist on patting themselves on the back and thinking running hot and cold water and flush toilets will magically decrease the suicide rate among our aboriginal  sisters and brothers they are

mistaken. 

Again.

By all means Canada, let's get that water where it should be but please don't let them make it a "Jesus" project.  

Jesus is no doubt horrified and still trying to get over the Residential Schools the churches built in His name.

Truth and Reconciliation should be led by the First Nations people themselves.

For now our job is to follow.

The Message Behind the Symbols

The image asks Christians to honour 

the Divine Feminine.

Some may find Her in the Holy Spirit.

Some may find her in our pre-Christian roots.

Wherever  you find Her,

may She bring peace and blessings

to you

as we prepare to celebrate the birth 

of Her 

Holy Child

and the return  of the sun.

Honour Her

The Winter Child tells us to honour his 

MOTHER  

.

SHE 

from whom all things come.