stars not crosses (except maybe yes crosses)

[hermionesviolin]

Monday night I was gchatting with Batshua and she asked:How do you feel about prayer beads?
I am drooling at them.
I already have two sets and am not buying more.
But this woman does lovely prayer beads for … pretty much anyone.
I'm not much of a prayer beads person myself, but I browsed and we had this conversation:me: I keep looking at the Jewish

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[cadenzamuse]

I like this theology of the cross.

Because I grew up Catholic, the Stations of the Cross are very deeply embedded in how I see the cross. Because that is a journey of pain, but also a journey of community, where people go with Jesus (reluctantly or passionately) and Jesus, dying, still offers Eirself to Eir community.

[hermionesviolin]

*Likes this comment*

I didn't grow up with Stations of the Cross, so I'm not familiar with them, and hadn't thought of them as having a community aspect.

Also, I really enjoy the neologism Eir/self.

[cadenzamuse]

Someone I know (I forget who) who prefers gender-neutral pronouns prefers zie/eir to zie/hir, and I confess that I do too ("hir" is so hard to say and gets mistaken so easily for "her"!), so I've adopted it.