Marian A. Jacobs

🖋️Writer of the fantastical | 🤍Christ follower | ✨Mom of 3 | 📗On Magic & Miracles | 🫶🏻Wife to @timthinks_com

[Marian A. Jacobs @majacobswrites]

On Magic & Miracles: A Theological Guide to Discerning Fictional Magic is available NOW! https://t.co/sItwa1tmSO

[Marian A. Jacobs @majacobswrites]

Yesterday I posted a review of Seeking Persephone, and there were some interesting comments in response. So naturally I had to write a Substack article about the IG comment section. https://t.co/HpbuzwIMki

[Marian A. Jacobs @majacobswrites]

@drewdyck They didn't need the button, they just needed speed!

[Marian A. Jacobs @majacobswrites]

My first time writing something for Christ and Pop Culture! This is a response to a recent dust up online when Catholic author Elisabeth Wheatley announced that she would be removing the open door scenes from her novels.

[Christ and Pop Culture @christandpc]

Marian A. Jacobs highlights a recent controversy in the world of romance fiction. “There are times when language changes so quickly that it signifies an intentional rebranding of not only the words being used but the very values they represent.”

https://t.co/k65WpsRsE2

[Marian A. Jacobs @majacobswrites]

@JennMGreenberg This is actually a good thing. These distinctions have always existed, but maybe now that they're being honest about it, egalitarians can stop blaming patriarchy on complementarians.

[Jennifer Greenberg 🕊️ @JennMGreenberg]

Public executions will be to killers

what pxrn is to r@pists.

They enjoy death.

They use these materials for inspiration and motivation.

This is not going to accomplish what you think.

[Marian A. Jacobs @majacobswrites]

@lampwright4 It could be the parents. But I also know some tomboys who would rather not read romance at all, and it’s just their own preference. I even have an adult female friend who genuinely dislikes most romance and tends to read more male authors.

[Marian A. Jacobs @majacobswrites]

@JoshuaBarzon Definitely 4

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@EStephenBurnett 💯

[Marian A. Jacobs @majacobswrites]

This is how you take actual scripture (ie Nephilim, demons = idols) and twist into syncretistic, pagan-esque mythology. These men should in no way be able to claim the label of conservative Christian with such a treatment of scripture.

[Don Marshall @RealDonMarshall]

Joel Webbon, Ben Garrett, and Brian Sauvé discuss how the Greek god Poseidon is real, that he is a fallen angel from Genesis 6, and that his son, Atlas the king of Atlantis, was one of the Nephilim. This is how they wedge pagan occultism into Christians' minds.

@WadeMiller

[Marian A. Jacobs @majacobswrites]

@Shannon_MMcD Internet culture for the win. Can't just be a little mad. Gotta completely lose your ever loving mind....

[Marian A. Jacobs @majacobswrites]

I’m already tired of the Narnia outrage, but I also haven’t changed my mind. It’s possible to show grace while remaining firm in your own convictions. Someone else making a different decision doesn’t need to feel like a threat or a personal insult. #themagiciansnephew

[Marian A. Jacobs @majacobswrites]

@JennMGreenberg Ack! Can we not ruin the Labyrinth with a sequel?

[Marian A. Jacobs @majacobswrites]

Today I’m discussing what makes a successful adaptation and how The Magician’s Nephew (or what we know of it thus far) compares. https://t.co/PSpwjfm3zv

#themagiciansnephew #cslewis #gretagerwig #thechroniclesofnarnia #themagiciansnephewmovie

[Marian A. Jacobs @majacobswrites]

Totally believe this story! I've felt the presence of God physically three times in my life, and two of those times felt like a very heavy weight pressing down on me. This sounds so similar.

[EWTN News @EWTNews]

A video of a Catholic priest breaking down in tears and struggling to raise the chalice above his head while saying the consecration prayers during Mass spread across social media this week, prompting the priest to issue a statement through his diocese.

“Take this all of you and drink from it: For this is the chalice…” Father Brent Bowman prayed at the altar, followed by a six-second pause while celebrating Mass for the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross at St. Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Church in Hopkins, Minnesota, on Sept. 14.

He continued the consecration prayer through tears and then sobbed for nearly one minute at the altar, struggling to raise the chalice. He continued to cry as he raised the chalice and was weeping as he knelt before the blood of Christ after the consecration.

Bowman’s emotional response to the consecration was captured on video because the parish livestreams its daily Masses on YouTube and it spread across social media platforms, with many viewers wondering what prompted the reaction.

In his statement, he explained that he did not witness what the Church considers a “Eucharistic miracle,” such as when the accidents of the bread and wine apparently change in some way along with the substance. Rather, he said, “I had a private spiritual experience” during the Mass.

“During the consecration prayer over the wine at the altar, as I spoke the words, I was given what I believe to be internal knowledge of the power of these words being spoken and the reality of their effect to the point that I had difficulty speaking,” Bowman said in his statement.

“With each word, I became more physically overwhelmed as seen in the video,” he said. “At the same time, I was given sensory knowledge of the weight of God’s power coming down upon the altar, and I felt the heaviness of Jesus’s substantial presence in the chalice in my hands.”

“The chalice became too heavy to hold as I felt it pulled down to rest upon the altar,” Bowman said. “I felt my hands fixed to the chalice of the Precious Blood, and I could not physically move it. Attempting to elevate the Precious Blood, which I was not able to do for a period of time, I believe I was given grace to understand more deeply the bittersweetness of Our Lord’s Passion and how much blood Christ shed for the immense weight of all our sins.”

“I believe I experienced this weight in the chalice,” he said. “This spiritual experience emotionally and physically overwhelmed me as evident in the Mass recording.”

Bowman noted that spiritual experiences are “completely unmerited gifts and signs of God’s abundant love for all his people” but “not necessarily signs of any person’s holiness.”

“I pray this brief testimony moves all our hearts to contemplate more deeply the mysteries of the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist and the Precious Blood,” he said.

Although Bowman did not experience a “Eucharistic miracle” in the sense of the bread or the wine altering its appearance, God does perform a miracle at every Mass during consecration, known as transubstantiation.

When the priest consecrates the Eucharist, the “substance” of bread and wine does not remain, but instead the bread and wine are transubstantiated into the true body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ even though it maintains the physical appearance and chemical structure of bread and wine.

“The presence of Christʼs true body and blood in this sacrament cannot be detected by sense, nor understanding, but by faith alone, which rests upon Divine authority,” St. Thomas Aquinas wrote in the “Summa Theologica.”

More: https://t.co/4BkCWwnRUc

[J.D. Greear @jdgreear]

I didn’t become convinced against Christian nationalism by reading another book. I became convinced after my own church faced discrimination when we were denied permission to build. Here’s why that experience clarified how I think about the government's authority in matters of religion.

https://t.co/Z3LTmmbjAB

[Marian A. Jacobs @majacobswrites]

If there's a concern AI could take over the internet, the power grid, etc., what are the chances it will try to take over your brain? 🤔

[Kekius Invictus @kekius9]

While Neuralink was carefully running clinical trials, China quietly approved the world's first commercial brain chip — and nobody saw it coming.
It's called NEO. No needles into the brain. Eight sensors sit on the membrane, coin-sized, reading your brain's electrical signals and sending them straight to machines outside your skull. A fully paralyzed patient thought "grip" — and a robotic hand grabbed a cup. 100% independently. First try.

[Phil Vischer @philvischer]

Help me out here... only male lions have manes, and shaving his mane is the ultimate humiliation the White Witch puts Aslan through.

So if Meryl Streep is Aslan... is Aslan a female lion with a mane? Or a male lion with woman's voice?

I'm not thrilled with either possibility.

[Marian A. Jacobs @majacobswrites]

So is it steampunk or rock? I'm confused. I think they might be too.

[NarniaWeb @NarniaWeb]

🚨 first look at Daniel Craig as Uncle Andrew in Great Gerwig’s ‘Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew’ out February 12th, 2027.

What do you think?

(Via: @empiremagazine)

[Marian A. Jacobs @majacobswrites]

@JennMGreenberg Oh I would much rather watch that!