This one might generate some controversy… “What Is (A) #Christian?” I began one this while on a retreat a few weeks back. With all the questions surrounding Christianity and its relationship to #fascist thinkers, it felt like a good time to offer a definition.

#Christianity #culture #politics #history #Bible

https://catecheticconverter.com/what-is-a-christian

There once were some nuns on a bike,
In a race where they pedaled alike.
With habits flowing free,
They raced joyfully,
In a clerical comedy strike!

#GuardianLimerick #Film #Cycling #Cycling #Christianity #France #Comedy #Culture #Europe #Religion #Sport

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/11/oh-my-goodness-review-bike-racing-nuns-go-for-the-prize-in-freewheeling-clerical-comedy

The Aramaic translation for “I am the way, the truth, and the life” in John 14:6 uses the following terms:

- Urcha (the way): Refers to a path or road, but also conveys a deeper meaning of guidance or religion in the Galilean dialect.

- Sharar (the truth): Implies firmness, leadership, and unchanging principles.

-Chi’a (the life): Indicates physical, spiritual, and eternal life, with a definite article emphasizing exclusivity.

A quotation from Orwell [wist.info]

All through the Christian ages, and especially since the French Revolution, the Western world has been haunted by the idea of freedom and equality; it is only an idea, but it has penetrated to all ranks of society. The most atrocious injustices, cruelties, lies, snobberies exist everywhere, but there are not many people left who can regard these things with the same indifference as, say, a Roman slave-owner. Even the millionaire suffers from a vague sense of guilt, like a dog eating a stolen leg of mutton. Nearly everyone, whatever his actual conduct may be, responds emotionally to the idea of human brotherhood.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1939), “Charles Dickens,” sec. 6, Inside the Whale (1940-03-11)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/75463/

Greenland. Land of ice. Also, land of Lutherans. (AP News article, lots of pictures, discussion of religion in modern Greenlandic life and its roots)

https://apnews.com/article/greenland-lutheran-church-inuit-identity-trump-c01748cc8484834d694d6fc6d9e2e502

Here’s an Ash Wednesday story for you all. When I was in college, a friend showed up to class with a grey smudge on her forehead.

I pulled her aside and quietly let her know she had something on her forehead. She laughed and told me it was Ash Wednesday.

I was raised so Evangelically that this possibility had never crossed my mind.

(To give context, Evangelicals do not generally observe Ash Wednesday or Lent).

Pope Francis suffered two episodes of “acute respiratory failure,” the Vatican says, as he continues to be hospitalized. Read more from @CBSNews
https://flip.it/Tz01.F
#Pope #Francis #Catholic #Health #Christianity

McElroy’s proper place in the world. His 1989 book, “The Search for an American Public #Theology,” argued that the fundamentalist strain of #Christianity, which wanted government leaders to base decisions on certain Scriptures, was too partisan and alienating to unify a country as diverse as the United States. Instead, Catholics should find common ground through an appeal to #reason, he believed. You didn’t need to quote the Bible to establish human life as sacred.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/03/02/historic-or-heretical-san-diegos-cardinal-is-one-of-the-u-s-s-most-consequential-catholic-leaders/