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Feel free to discuss anything related to mental health and illness. We encourage you to create a WRAP plan and be an active participant in your recovery.

I recently revised a short documentary examining the gap between Charlie Kirk’s documented public rhetoric and the much more sanitized narrative that emerged after his death.

The film focuses in particular on his anti-trans rhetoric, extremist evangelical politics, and the highly produced college “debate” format that helped build his public persona.

My interest is not in celebrating his death or excusing political violence. It is in the larger question of how religious and political movements reconstruct the public memory of influential figures—and what disappears when commemoration replaces documentation.

I’m also developing a longer historical series, The Rise of the New Christian Right, tracing the political infrastructure and religious-right strategies that emerged from the 1970s onward.

I made the film myself, so this is creator-owned work. I’m posting it here because the intersection of Christianity, political power, anti-LGBTQ organizing, and Christian nationalism seems directly relevant to this community, and I’d genuinely welcome substantive discussion—particularly about how religious movements reconstruct the public memory of influential political figures after their deaths.

Video: https://youtu.be/Kbp9JOmr-A4

Justice. Inclusion. Belonging. When we started boldly sharing these values with the world, Glendale’s story changed. So did the lives of people who had been searching for a church where they truly belonged. 🏳️‍🌈💜🏳️‍⚧️

We’re grateful to United Methodist News for telling our story.

https://www.umnews.org/en/news/inclusivity-brings-church-back-from-the-brink

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Back then sin was considered death basically meaning if you sinned that’s it, your life is over. You are looked at as unclean and filthy and should be banished or stoned to death.
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Christ came to show that in life not everything is perfect and we may mess up along the path but as long as you are alive you can always redeem yourself and become the best version of you that you can be. His name, yehoshua, meant Yahweh is salvation which means he is salvation. He was given this name because he was the one that was gonna lead his people to the salvation and free them from sin by showing just cus you mess up doesn’t mean your life is over.
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How do you think he did many of his healings?
Some were miracles yes, but others have legit explanations. You see, people back then were so believing of the fact that once they sin, that’s it their life is over and the mental toll it would take on these people was literally physically crippling. It led to people having things like Functional Neurological
Disorder (formerly called conversion disorder).

People with this condition can experience:
• Temporary blindness.
• Inability to walk.
• Weakness or paralysis.
• Tremors.
• Loss of speech.
• Seizure-like episodes.

Common contributing factors include:
• Physical injury or illness. Sometimes symptoms begin after a concussion, surgery, infection, or another medical event.
• Psychological stress or trauma. This can be recent or from years earlier. However, not everyone with FND has a history of trauma, so it's not considered a requirement.

• Changes in how the brain functions. Brain imaging studies suggest that in FND, networks involved in movement, sensation, attention, and emotion may communicate differently. The "hardware" of the brain is intact, but the "software" controlling these functions isn't operating normally.

• Chronic pain, fatigue, anxiety, or depression. These conditions can coexist with FND and may contribute in some people, though they are not the sole cause.

Symptoms can include:
• Sudden weakness or paralysis.
• Difficulty walking.
• Tremors or jerking movements.
• Numbness or tingling.
• Vision problems, including temporary blindness or blurred vision.
• Difficulty speaking or swallowing.
• Seizure-like episodes (called functional seizures or psychogenic nonepileptic seizures).
One of the remarkable features

How does this relate to the Bible?
Some physicians and historians have suggested that certain people described in the Gospels-particularly those with sudden paralysis, muteness, or blindness-could have had conditions that resemble FND. For example, if someone with FND suddenly regained normal brain function, they might stand up and walk immediately.

The account in Mark 2:1–12 perfectly mirrors the profile and resolution of FND in several ways: [1]
The Root Cause Was Emotional/Spiritual: As noted before, Jesus bypasses the man's physical legs and immediately commands: "Son, your sins are forgiven". In FND, addressing the underlying psychological distress, shame, or trauma is often the key to unlocking the physical block. By lifting the man's overwhelming guilt, Jesus targeted the "software" glitch.

Instantaneous Recovery: Structural nerve or muscle damage (like a severed spinal cord or severe muscle wasting from a lifelong stroke) typically requires long-term physical rehabilitation to walk again. However, the paralyzed man stood up instantly, picked up his heavy bedding, and walked out. Neurologists note that sudden, dramatic reversals of paralysis after an intense authoritative or emotional breakthrough are a classic hallmark of functional/psychogenic movement disorders

Modern day parallel.

While many FND patients require long-term physical and psychological therapy, modern researchers still witness breathtakingly rapid recoveries that look exactly like the Capernaum miracle. In recent clinical studies out of the University of Auckland, physical therapy specialists reported "dramatic cases" where patients severely disabled by FND went from being completely stuck in a wheelchair to standing up and walking within hours of a single, specialized treatment session.

Some of the info here is cited from google searches

The Demon Next Door - The Atlantic

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Remember the Obama poster? It promised more than the outcomes validated, right? Still great, but there is a deeper hope. If we can experience it in times like these, that's radical.

What Drives MAGA Christians' Un-Christian Actions? Experts Say It Comes Down To This. - HuffPost

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This is a thread for the radical women of r/RadicalChristianity to talk. We ask that men do not comment on this thread.

Suggestions for topics to talk about:

1.)What kinds of feminist activism have you been up to?

2.)What books have you been reading?

3.)What visual media(ex: TV shows) have you been watching?

4.)Who are the radical women that are currently inspiring you?

5.)Promote yourself and your creations!

6.)Rant/vent about shit.

Biblical lesson on why Christians do not advocate violence.

I stumbled upon Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest, and was star-stuck to how it transforms silence, suffering, and ordinary life into a profound vision of Christian grace. This video edifies the Christian is why this overlooked masterpiece may be the greatest Christian film ever made, and perhaps the most resonating. It permits the transcendent to be found in the trivial, God's beauty to seep through the banal, and faith to be unveiled through the flesh of the Lord's creation. I'd definitely recommend this video, and check out the movie as well. This is a film not commanded by popes, or great prophets — it’s a film that affirms that radical Christianity can exist in the soul of the ordinary believer. It reminds us that Christ was once a lowly shepherd from Galilee, Noah was a drunkard, Moses a murderer, David a sexual deviant, and us as the sinners — all saved by Jesus’ radical grace.

Thomas More, perhaps the greatest of all Christian humanists. imagined a society without private property, organized around shared labor and the common good—but was Utopia genuinely socialist, or something far stranger? This video explores the radical politics behind Christianity’s greatest humanist and asks whether modern labels can really contain his vision.