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Radical Traditional Jewish Person
JustSayXtian
#ChristianSupremacyIs the conflation of "Christian" with "good" in cultural assumptions and aphorisms. #ChristianSupremacy is having every public interaction for 1/4 of the year involve strangers asking my kids what they
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Bhartiya
gary_agg
You leave the crackers on diwali, they say don't use water on holi, u leave water. Then they say, don't tie rakhi to brothers on rakshabandhan as it is patriarchy,
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korsha wilson
korshawilson
Watching Juneteenth be adopted as a holiday en masse and stripped of its very specific regional history in real time is really interesting... One of the central questions I'm always
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Hannah Malcolm
hannahmmalcolm
This time last year I got accepted to train for ordination in the Church of England. (This is an earnest church feelings thread, sorry). I was raised evangelical, with a
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Bunny Sparber קיניגל שׁפּארבּער
maxsparber
God, the labeling of certain DNA strands shared by Jewish people as "Ashkenazi" has fucked a lot of people up You can have Ashkenazi DNA and not be an Ashkenazi
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Edward C. Yong ن
infernoxv
A thread!it's interesting how some cultures & countries have a tradition of pre-modern crime/detective fiction (novels, stories, plays, etc), while others don't. the Western & Arab/Islamic worlds have had them
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suffy bummers
nivstanaccount
Everyone's talking about Nicole being all alone during these 18 months-- on a more positive note can we imagine Nicole and Rachel finding solace in each other's company after losing
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David W Grebstad
DavidGrebstad
I finished reading the CDS/DM Initiating Directive for Professional Conduct and Culture. In general terms I found that it struck the right tone and indicates that in the opening phases
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Lawên | لاوێن
Lawwwen
Someone on here criticized the Kurdish makeup artist on the basis of “it is not desirable in our culture for men to dress as women” but what’s interesting is that
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Allison Elizabeth Bailey
AEBaileyEpi
People like hearing about my research interests when I start talking about the role of West African funeral rites in Ebola outbreaksThey don’t like hearing about my research interests when
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jack
lindyfood
National food traditions are built on the opposition homemade oriented (Russia) vs restaurant oriented (Nordic countries). The first finds its best expression inside the house walls, the second in restaurants.https://twitter.com/brothius/status/12545
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Brad East
eastbrad
This is a good thread about how, theologically & historically, to construe the 16th century reform movements we term "the Reformation" as well as ongoing "Protestant" identity.My question: Beyond a
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Vedic Wisdom...ॐ
VedicWisdom1
A story of traditionToday I will tell you a short story, A story of traditionThere was a house in a village where a family lived, 3 brothers together in a
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Samantha Field
samanthapfield
"Christianity is wholly irredeemable" takes from deconstructing whites are just racism wearing a different face.It's racism fueled mostly by ignorance but still. Book rec time:Sisters in the Wilderness by WilliamsWomanist
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Kanwal Ahmed
kanwalful
The Curse of "Traditions" - A threadJust because our moms/nanis/dadis had to bear something and they turned out "okay" doesn't mean what they bore was okay. Just because things have
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Radical Traditional Jewish Person
JustSayXtian
I want to tell a story about this. Two years ago, my younger brother died. He didn't think of himself as Jewish. He was raised even less connected to Judaism
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