Sadly I Think That Liberation Theology In General Doesnt Get The Traction It Deserves Both In (predominantly

sadly i think that liberation theology in general doesn’t get the traction it deserves both in (predominantly white) secular and religious circles because people, even the “good” christians who value social justice, are more interested in liberating themselves than they are in liberating other people. at some point christianity stopped being about communion and started being about how we can free ourselves from something: sin, guilt, shame, fundamentalism, etc. in actuality christianity is and has always been about other people, but nobody seems keen on acknowledging that in any way that matters. 

dj got us falling in love again

“I love God, Christ, and the Catholic faith as much as it is possible for so miserably inadequate a creature to love them. I love the saints through their writings and what is told of their lives–apart from some whom it is impossible for me to love fully or to consider as saints. I love the six or seven Catholics of genuine spirituality whom chance has led me to meet in the course of my life. I love the Catholic liturgy, hymns, architecture, rites, and ceremonies. But I have not the slightest love for the Church in the strict sense of the word, apart from its relation to all these things that I do love.”

— Simone Weil, excerpt from Waiting for God

Georg Karl Franz Cornicelius (German, 1825-1898) Christ Tempted by Satan, 1888

blessed are those who fidget, with rosaries and toys and jewelry and bodies. blessed are those who stim, who flap and rock and tap and sing. blessed is our movement and our joy and our anxiety and our expression. ours is the kingdom of heaven every time we move openly and honestly, caring for our bodies. and blessed are those who keep it in, who are told to keep their hands quiet, who stifle out of embarrassment or past harm. we inherit the earth every moment we survive in an ableist world, and there is joy in our future.