Showing posts with label Anglicans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anglicans. Show all posts

Monday, 15 June 2015

'Do This In My Name'


I don't believe the number of believers has changed 

much since I was a kid in the 1950s.

I do believe that the number of people who feel 

socially obligated to go to church has dropped 

significantly.

With so few attendees today a good church is a busy 

place.  

The Anglican church I have started attending has a 

free lunch for the hungry every Sunday. Parishioners 

take turns cooking, serving and cleaning up. 

The churches in the area all take turns providing free 

breakfasts for the homeless every day of the year.

They collect food donations every week  

and the group that I am going to join makes up 

packages of ingredients that make a wholesome, 

filling meal, (recipe included) for the local food bank.


No proselytizing, mo judging, no one is turned away.

They just get up early and do it.



I have my issues with the Christian church but this 

isn't one of them.

Wednesday, 3 June 2015

Girl Eats Boy



This image from 2014 is called 'Song of Creation'.  

It shows the Great Mother birthing the Trinity at the 

time of Creation.


Which is problematic because the Trinity is a 

Christian God, three times masculine and 

misogynistic. 


Why would She do such a thing?  


But maybe I'm wrong.


Maybe She is about to devour it and this is an 

image of the first great Cosmic Eucharist. 







Tuesday, 2 June 2015

Judging Caitlin



'Judge not lest ye be judged'.


Well right. 


With that thought in mind I have to tell you that I 

have been totally creeped out by the recent photos 

of Caitlin Jenner.


Her idea of what it means to be a sixty-five year old 

woman makes my skin crawl.


I suppose what really worries me is not Ms Jenner 

herself, but the adoration of the camera.


The cries of, "How brave she is!"


But getting old requires bravery.


And evidently being able to see 


the colour of the soul 


under the story written on a sixty-five year old face 


is a skill the very rich have been denied.



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