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Raleigh
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“Marital idolatry” I know there’s a similar idea in the CCC but describing every disordered love as idolatry feels latently iconoclastic to me. An idol must be destroyed, but participating in divine worship is the thing that will allow all other loves to find their proper order
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It’s a silly article but the backlash really does highlight the latent divisions and even mutual incomprehension among TGC’s audience over what church services are, and what they are for. It is a parachurch “coalition” after all, shouldn’t come as a surprise
"As Julie and I discussed it, we thought it was worth calling Christian couples to re-imagine what it’s like walking into church on your own, and then to think of church less like a date and more like a deployment."
—Dave Moore
au.thegospelcoalition.org/ar…
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such a letdown when a word has to be deitalicized for ""emphasis"" some upstart type designer needs to invent a font with real superitalics… swoops and ribbons, curly q’s etc
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piling into a van with four of your best friends and driving five hours to see a band you’re obsessed with and then crashing at someone’s house just to drive home the next day is a thing I experienced for the first time at 39 (the friends being of course my kids)
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Daughter says she went to an optional vocations Q&A during lunch and it was “you know, that priest with the hair [ambiguous gesture]” Who? “like I’ve seen him on a video” Fr. Mike Schmitz?? “yeah, that’s him” ??
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I mean the ECC is a joke but it is pretty wild from an “Old Catholic” pov to allow an ordained priest to contract marriage
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I would also like to know this but my assumption is that they just weren’t going to release the film and EH/BE finally caved because they crave the attention
Billy, in what ways did A24 pressure you (off camera) to walk away from getting paid for your participation in the film? Can you share what you would have received under the original deal they agreed to?
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I finished Bad Blood and now 100% believe she made Billy ask for the money. The point of the doc is to observe her reality distortion field in operation
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wait was this whole thing about caleb flynn
yes, I mean seriously in the sense that there are two sorts of beliefs: those that are shared with others, as in a social setting or communal bond; & those that are private, genuine.
in true crime documentaries it happens repeatedly, & I mean repeatedly, how "good Christians" kill one another just as unconscionably & cruelly as anyone else, including their own spouses who are the mothers of their children, no matter what they pretend to believe socially; when it comes to advancing the self, it's the selfish self that predominates, not the "religious" self--some sort of public performance/hypocrisy.
that is why self-proclaimed religious persons can be so bloodthirsty if required: their religious identities are largely performative, communal. but not deep.
surely true for the many on Twitter who proclaim how "religious" they are!---how Jesus is in their heart!---scary people....
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Unlike Turkish Delight, you never hear about kids who grew up watching The Godfather being disappointed by Cannoli.
Ring camera shows that last night around 10pm three questionable characters [high school+ trick or treaters] showed up at my doorstep, became fascinated by the epiphany blessing, took a photo of it, and left
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