Our religious communities at their best are places where we grow our capacities to be with experience in all its complexity and paradox, to listen deeply to one another, to allow ourselves to be seen and held in love, and to respond creatively and collectively.

The religious responsibility of the faithful is to remove and dismantle the systems and structures that prevent the full flourishing of life and to enhance and side with the movement of creative and active love.

We affirm the power of Love to heal what is broken, to hold us together across pluralities of diverse religious practices and beliefs, to hold us when things fall apart, to grow our capacities, and to guide us as we return again and again in our families and communities to side with Love.

When we are engaged in acts of love, we humans are at our best and most resilient… If the goal was to increase the love, rather than winning or dominating a constant opponent, I think we could actually imagine liberation from constant oppression.

I look up and experience her music as a Beatitude of Peace, a feathery sonnet that rings of grace and hope...

There in the deep sack of night, a tiny Hope was born. 

Appreciation and deep witness are beautiful gateways for returning to our most authentic selves.

Scorekeeping is about who hurts whom more. In the long-term, no one wins.

Love this world, she whispers.

Building relationships requires the risk of being open and curious.

In our lived lives, family comes in different shapes and sizes and constellations.It is in this variety—this diversity—that our lives are made fuller and our individual selves made more whole. It is in this variety, it is in this diversity, that we look back to the ancestors, recognizing no...

How can I be love instead of being anger and fear?

Loving sometimes takes all that we have.

Love shows up in complicated conversations.

Let us be grateful for the vital force that wakes us and moves us.

Love is reaching through the generations with expectations that I live through challenging times.

You are loved beyond your wildest imaginings by the spirit of creation.

Can we enfold other people in the way we long to be enfolded?

I didn’t know the human heart could hold so much love before I met this congregation.

Can I love all of me, even the peevish parts?