#omg omg
poor southern small town Facebook is like…. 3 beautiful women feuding over the most fucked up looking jobless ne’er-do-well in the county, your friend from high school is having her 3rd baby at age 20 and naming it something horrendous, “this dog showed up in my yard, who’s fucking dog is this?”, “pray for my meemaw she broke her hip drunk last week and now has COVID”, meme about bass fishing (which was pretty funny from a townie), only other gay person in town making a milktoast liberal political post, thirst traps from someone who makes no one feel thirsty, details of a couple’s divorce online for everyone to see, ballpark fight between two moms, “this is on sale at the piggy wiggly so move your ass and go get some!”, “I love driving around in the woods drinking beer”, “it smells like something is burning, is a house on fire somewhere?”
In case it isn’t clear from the post, I went through the public school system in North Carolina.
Studies Regarding God as Mother throughout Christian History
The Holy Spirit as feminine: Early Christian testimonies and their interpretation
The Holy Spirit as Feminine in Early Syriac Literature
The Mother-Spirit in the Syrian Tradition: Aphrahat and Ephrem
Feminine Imagery for the Divine: The Holy Spirit, The Odes of Solomon, and Early Syriac Tradition
The Female Pronoun for God in Numbers 11:15 by Nicholas Ansell
The God with Breasts: El Shaddai in the Bible by David Biale
Feminine-Maternal Images of the Spirit in Early Syriac Tradition by Emmanuel Kaniyamparampil of Carmelaram Theology College
The Mother of God’s People: The Adoration of the Holy Spirit in the Eighteenth-Century Brudergemeine by Craig Atwood
Male and Female in Cappadocian Theology (The Journal of Theological Studies)
‘My Mother, My God,’ ‘Why have you forsaken me?’: An Exegetical Note on Psalm 22 as Christian Scripture by Jonathan D. Parker
Shadday as a Goddess Epithet by Harriet Lutzky
Added an article about a female pronoun being used for God in the Hebrew of Numbers 11 (see article #5 - it can be found online with a Google search)! While masculine is the default in Hebrew for people of ambiguous/irrelevant gender (per Rabbi David Stein), the use of a Hebrew female pronoun in that verse made sense in context as Moses was essentially calling God the Mother of Israel. And the female pronoun was recognized and discussed by Jewish rabbis like Rashi throughout history, so it’s not like this went unnoticed until now.
I’m very grateful to The Forward for alerting me to this beautiful tidbit of information.
frankly I’m surprised they even made it to the altar
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oh to have a sexy sexy magic eye to see ur beloved™️ with
Little devil (they/he)
The Wives on a date.
I aspired to have aziraphale’s hair one day
846 words | The monster of Lindborough (sequel to Wound care)
Content| Werewolf whumpee, past abuse
Notes| Nothing much happens in this one, but you know, it’s important to talk to your friends
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William watched the boy sleep. He was dog-tired himself, but he had promised.
And after everything, this was the least he could do.
He tried not to think too hard about it, but now, in the stillness of the morning and the gentle ebbing of the shock, it was difficult not to let his mind go whichever places it pleased. Pushing the unbidden thoughts away felt cowardly - after all, the boy had had to actually suffer through what was occupying his mind, while he only felt guilty now for not having stopped it, not having been wiser - but it still hurt.
Sometime around midday, there was a knock on the door, and Alastor came in, bringing him bread rolls. He paused in the bedroom door, eyes wandering from William to the boy to the empty shackles on the floor.