Everything Jesus did served to bring everyone into his family. His whole ministry was to bring everyone into the in-group.

The Trinity manifests a God who asks us to rest in uncertainty, a God who invites our curiosity.

If we’re just hoping to get back to normal, if we are not transformed, then we are letting the Spirit pass us by.

Each of us needs to begin to figure out how to create a space to connect with God.

Laying down our life for our friends doesn’t necessarily mean dying. Maybe we’re called to lay down a way of life.

Why do we reserve the kind of love we proclaim in our wedding vows only for our partners?

transformation can only happen when we feel like we belong to one another.

We can’t make grief go away—we all know it doesn’t—but grief evolves. It can diminish in intensity, we can and do learn to live with it.

Linda Simmons offers a homily about her work with Kizimani in Kenya.

Let us remember that it is when we learn—and when we say—one another’s names that the veil is lifted and resurrection is revealed.

By following Jesus, we learn to heal, teach, learn, speak, listen, and most of all, love all our fellow sisters and brothers.

Our call in the face of suffering is to do what God did: send Love.

The cross is where resurrection is conceived. The cross is where hope is born.

When our highest value is productivity, we dehumanize ourselves, which is to say we separate ourselves from God.

To truly be close to God we need to be able to trust in God. We cannot exercise trust when we are only surrounded by certitude.

I invite us to ask ourselves, “What might I release during this time to invite respite?"

We don’t have to keep plugging away. We don’t have to keep moving at this exhausting pace. We need to slow down. We. Need. Respite.

Above all, Paul was trying to remind the communities he wrote to what every Christian’s anchor should be: love.

That’s what we do as a Christian community: we seek the roots, we find Jesus there, and we let him change every part of us.

God wants to be in relationship with us: reaching out to us and inviting us to reach out to God - even in our scariest times.