What do you think of the gospel of Mary Magdalene?

Maybe you've never looked outside the church to know...

Nice! I'll have three please.

Yes, and while it is not pastorized, it is homoousionized.

(Theology nerd alert: that is a pun based on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoousion)

I think the gates of heaven may be similarly locked - we knock on heaven's door, but the handle is on the other side.

Jesus was able to separate himself from his ethnic identity

"The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy"
- Yevgeny Zamyatin

Do you drink milk, and is it pastorized milk?

Would you recognize Him if He did?

Is Jesus coming tonight? I’m throwing a party, a Christian party.

I remember making Christingles as a kid a couple of times and loving the way they smell with the orange and the cloves. My favorite Christmassy craft, however, is to make an Advent wreath, which is super easy to do if you've got access to pine or cedar twigs somehow.

A lot of my other favorite holiday traditions are culinary, from cocktails to sweets, but most of all for January 6--Armenian Christmas--my wife and I cook up a huge dinner of kufteh, lavash, bulgur salad, dolmas, etc.

Thank you for your reply, I appreciate this.

I'm not religious anymore, but we used to go to the village services as a kid and my fave thing was the Christingle. Are you aware of these? Do you do them?

What are some of your other favourite international Christmas traditions?

To bastardize C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity, it is very likely that the cold-hearted, self-righteous prick who goes to church every Sunday is far closer to hell than the atheist.

To take him one step further in The Great Divorce, the gates of hell are locked from the inside. He suggests--and I can back this up with Scripture--that entrance to heaven may yet be possible after we die. If an atheist who left the world a better place than they found it dies still an atheist, I do not fear for the fate of their soul the way I would for the hatemongering Christian.

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Why aren't you wearing clothes while taking photos?

During photo shoots on the streets?

Doesn't it get cold?

Well, I suppose it's one way to control your subjects' gaze.

How do you deal with standing for lonq periods in the cold during outdoor shoots? Is frostbite a problem?

What are your thoughts on atheists, and do you believe they would still go to heaven, even if they don't believe, but are still good people thru out their lives?

Righteous answer my dude

Wow! Incredibly thoughtful and interesting take. I agree with you about Constantine and co adapting what worked to shift the populace towards this newer (at the time) faith. Thank you for the response and the food thought! Have a lovely day

While I appreciate your cultural roots and your loyalty to your family, extra ecclesiam nulla salus.

My family and in-laws.

I kinda almost love how politely you asked me to repent...like, that's definitely not how demands of repentance usually work on the internet.

My Protestantism is actually deeply intertwined with my ethnic identity--I'm a fourth-generation Armenian Congregationalist, and that faith identity was integral to my family's flight to the United States during the genocide during World War One. I have relatives who have chosen Catholicism, and in fact received much of my theological education from the Dominicans and Jesuits and have a deep love of Catholicism. But I was raised in a faith tradition that has given my family strength for generations and could no sooner separate that from myself than I could my ethnic identity.