sincere thread time

while we're dunking on bad theology, might as well dunk on my own bad theology these are a few things i believed about jesus until basically just this past year. it's hard to say in retrospect what i was directly told as a protestant kid, what i inferred, and what was just poorly interpreted, but regardless they aren't great!

just finished this fascinating biography of Margaret Wise Brown. among many things to note of much more importance, she dressed EXACTLY as a moodily introspective mid-century authoress ought.

(very long and detailed thread) most interesting, to me, is her self-penned epitaph "writer of songs and nonsense". she was disappointed her whole life that she couldn't break into the world of literature for grown-ups, and was stuck writing 'nonsense' for children. prolific, radical, brilliant nonsense!

for anybody who doesn't understand the current catholic twitter drama, here is a thread about why we're getting so upset about the racist catholics

(I'm writing specifically for white people here) 1/23 the first thing to know is that racism is a very charged and serious word, so it is easiest to understand in the context of, say, the lynching of Emmet Till--a literal black-and-white event where we can point to the oppressors and say "they are fully culpable of mortal sin." 2/