The practice of faith is about building up the kind of courage we need to live the gospel.

Resting is one big way to demonstrate our trust in God’s grace. We don’t have to keep proving our strength, our worth, our faith.

I’m here to say that queer folks actively teach the rest of the world something about the Kingdom of God.

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.