Graninge Topples Gomorrah

A devout Laestidian Christian, his beliefs were built on a strong connection to his Homeland and a deep love for Jesus. He lived much of his life in accordance to traditional, nomadic Norwegian Sámi Guovdageaidnu customs; until he was forced to move to Swedish Sápmi by train due to discriminatory border restrictions. It was there he met Emilie Demant Hatt, a Danish ethnographer who could not understand his way of speech until an interpreter stepped in; she confided in him a wish to live among his people, and he confided in her a wish to write a book documenting the customs and beliefs of those people. They would both go on to have their wishes fulfilled, the book was penned by Turi in his brother's cabin where he had arranged for Emilie to stay. Before her time in the cabin she'd been sleeping in their tents and wearing their clothing for about a year, in return she took on the role of being his housekeeper and book editor for the remaining months left of the Autumn season, until eventually migrating back to Denmark. The book was a monumental landmark in Sámi literature for being one of the first books penned about Sámi customs by an actual Sámi in a culture where most knowledge was to be passed down orally, correcting the ignorant misconception that the Sámi simply lacked the ability to communicate through written language.

Nenzén and Norlén family of Björknäset, Graninge.

Hulda Matilda Nenzén of Björknäset, Graninge.

A note from the author of the website:

The great oligarch dreams of a technological Jörmungandr to justify his Apunna, but the synchronicitiy will not be brought about by those of sincere spiritual belief. It is too sinful, it is too unthinkable. If the roaring machines trample over the Scandinavian Peninsula; Freyja of Fólkvangr will weep, Mary of Nazareth will bleed and even at the end of Pralaya, the forces of Adharma will refuse to heed. The People of Gods, all; wish to be strings on the Lord's wooden harp. They wish to cut us down, like Ceasar unto the trees of Massila. Do not let them.

Games About Faith

Pentiment

Synopsis: Set in Upper Bavaria in the early 16th century, a time of great social, religious, and political upheaval, the player steps into the shoes of Andreas Maler, a master artist at the scriptorium of Kiersau Abbey who finds himself caught up in a series of murders over twenty-five years.

PLANESCAPE: TORMENT

Synopsis: Awakening in a mortuary with no memory of his past lives, the Nameless One embarks on a journey across the planes of the multiverse to uncover his identity, encountering philosophical questions concerning mortality, sin, regret, and whether a man can change his nature.

DEUS EX

Synopsis: Operating in a dystopian near-future ravaged by a synthetic plague, anti-terrorist agent JC Denton uncovers a global conspiracy involving ancient secret societies, religious factions, and technological transhumanism that forces a final choice over the spiritual and political governance of human history.

Films About Faith

Diary of a Country Priest

Synopsis: A young, sickly priest arrives in a French village where he faces spiritual isolation, local hostility, and his own failing health while recording his inner crisis of faith in a private diary.

The Exorcist III

Synopsis: Police Lieutenant William Kinderman investigates a series of brutal ritual murders in Georgetown that bear the exact signature of a serial killer executed years prior, leading him into a profound theological confrontation with evil.

Day of Wrath

Synopsis: In a 17th-century Danish village gripped by religious fanaticism and witch trials, an aging pastor's young second wife falls in love with his son, triggering accusations of witchcraft when the pastor dies suddenly.

The Seventh Seal

Synopsis: Returning from the Crusades to a medieval land ravaged by plague, a knight challenges Death to a chess match while searching for meaningful answers about life, God, and mortality.

The Flowers of St. Francis

Synopsis: A series of episodic vignettes depicting Saint Francis and his early friars as they wander the Italian countryside practicing radical humility, poverty, and brotherhood.

Stalker

Synopsis: A guide known as a "Stalker" leads two men—a writer seeking inspiration and a professor seeking scientific truth—through a hazardous post-apocalyptic restricted area known as "The Zone" to find a room that grants a person's innermost desires.

Kingdom of Heaven

Synopsis: Balian of Ibelin, a French blacksmith haunted by the loss of his family, joins his estranged father as a crusader knight in Jerusalem, where he rises to defend the city's inhabitants against overwhelming odds while seeking redemption and a city of peace.

The Dark Night of the Soul

Written by Saint John of the Cross

1. On a dark night,
Kindled in love with yearnings—oh, happy chance!—
I went forth without being observed,
My house being now at rest.

2. In darkness and secure,
By the secret ladder, disguised—oh, happy chance!—
In darkness and in concealment,
My house being now at rest.

3. In the happy night,
In secret, when none saw me,
Nor did I look on aught,
With no other light or guide
Than that which burned in my heart.

4. This light guided me
More surely than the light of noonday,
To the place where he was waiting for me
(Well did I know who!),
In a place where none appeared.

5. Oh, night that guided me!
Oh, night more lovely than the dawn!
Oh, night that joined
Beloved with beloved,
Beloved in the lover transformed!

6. Upon my flowering breast,
Which kept whole for him alone,
There he slept, and I caressed him,
And the fanning of the cedars made a breeze.

7. The breeze blew from the turret
As I parted his locks;
With its gentle hand
It wounded my neck
And suspended all my senses.

8. I abandoned and forgot myself,
Laying my face on the Beloved;
All things ceased; I went out from myself,
Leaving my cares
Forgotten among the lilies.

"The place of God in my soul is blank — There is no God in me — When the pain of longing is so great — I just long & long for God..."

— Mother Teresa, Personal Diary Entries

YHWH hid his divine flesh from Moses on Mount Sinai.

This cat will be

Remembering Johan Turi, a bridge between the people of the coast and the people of the mountains.

Games About Faith

Films About Faith

The Corruption of Atheism.

On Tradition & Preservation

Multicultural Nationalism

Words of Saint Francis of Assisi.