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  • alt text: viewed at floor level, a pair of hands buckles a fabulous, sparkly red platform spike heel shoe, the other shoe already buckled.
    When the world tells you your love is a sin, that your body is a transgression, to be loved is the Holy made real.
    Reflection | By Kim Mason | June 24, 2026 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Awe, Direct Experience, Freedom, Humanism, Identity, Inclusion, Interfaith, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Pride Sunday, Sexuality, Spiritual Practice, Transcendence, Worship
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  • From beneath a glass table, the camera looking upward, three gamers examine a series of cards laid out, a series of brightly colored polyhedral dice, and a few gummy bears in a clear plastic container. A bookcase behind one player holds stacks of board games; one that's visible is Risk.
    The binary that’s done more harm than any of the others is Us versus Them.
    Reflection | By Cat Rambo | June 17, 2026 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: #Pride, 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Coming Out, Coming-of-Age, Direct Experience, Gender, Identity, Interdependence, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Pride Sunday, Science, Self-Respect, Sexuality, Worship
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  • A person's hand, palm up, tosses or receives a small handful of multicolored confetti.
    My child came out like confetti. It was beautiful.
    Reflection | By Anonymous | June 10, 2026 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: #Pride, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Children, Coming Out, Compassion, Direct Experience, Humanism, Identity, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Parents, Personal Stories, Pride Sunday, Relationships, Secular, Self-Respect, Sexuality, Worship
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  • A black-and-white photo of a couple, limbs intertwined, on a couch. They're gazing into each other's eyes.
    May we dare to dream and choose to live in freedom.
    Reflection | By Pat Uribe-Lichty | June 3, 2026 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: #Pride, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Coming Out, Direct Experience, Freedom, Humanism, Identity, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Pride Sunday, Relationships, Secular, Self-Respect, Sexuality, Worship
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  • A single leafless birch tree stands in a snowy landscape of rolling hills.
    …There’s a magic to snow that is undeniable. Not just its beauty, which is real, or the way it reflects back to us light or the potential for joy…
    Reading | By Kristina Spaude | May 28, 2026 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Advent, Beauty, Contemplation, Nature, Patience, Reverence, Silence, Solitude, Winter, Worship
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  • A candleholder in the shape of a lotus flower, with translucent petals in metal frames, holds a lit votive candle. The candleholder is on a rough-hewn table of brown wood, near a brass bowl and some other objects that are too out-of-focus to identify.
    Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
    Quote | By Joseph Campbell | May 28, 2026 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Calling, Growth, Identity, Integrity, Joy, Sacred, Worship
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  • A close-up of two people sitting across from each other. One person is wearing camouflage pants, with a camo hat sitting next to him. His hands are being held by another person's hands, whose cuffs appear to be a brown uniform.
    Everyone deserves a chance to feel welcome and accepted.
    Reflection | May 27, 2026 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Humility, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Memorial Day, Military, Ministry, Presence, Pride Sunday, Worship
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  • Progress pride flags on a row of flagpoles.
    We honor the multiplicity of genders, and with great audacity we keep going, in spite of violence against our bodies, in spite of loss of life.
    Affirmation | By Kaiyote | May 22, 2026 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Activism, Anti-Oppression, Commitment, Community, Grief, Healing, History, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Rights, Strength, Transgender Day of Remembrance, Worship
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  • The view looking out from inside a cave. There are tall deciduous trees and a cliff wall outside, and the rocky ground is covered with shrubs and moss. Inside the cave, barely visible in the foreground, are the silhouettes of four people.
    o green prayers, find me here as i listen wordless in earth’s touchable liminal body…
    Poetry, Prayer, Reading | By Jennifer Pratt-Walter | May 22, 2026 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Awe, Beauty, Earth, Immanence, Nature, Sacred, Worship
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  • A group of adults gathers, as if ending a meeting. Four people in the background smile--three standing and one sitting--as two more adults hug warmly in front of them.
    Shared ministry is all about creating the conditions for genuine and sacred connections to be made.
    Reflection | By Anonymous | May 20, 2026 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Community, Compassion, Living Our Faith, Ministry, Solidarity, Strength, Trust, Worship
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  • Inside what appears to be a church sanctuary, with their backs to the camera, a multiracial group of five adults forms a warm huddle. They have their arms wrapped around each others' shoulders; one person rests their head on another's shoulder.
    Our shared ministry is making this life livable in the best and worst of times; we can only do that together.
    Reflection | By Antoinette Hollamon | May 13, 2026 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Calling, Caring, Community, Direct Experience, Leadership, Living Our Faith, Ministry, Worship
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  • In the background, people are sitting in wooden church pews. In the foreground and in profile, a Black person wearing a suit jacket clasps his hands in front of him.
    The most important thing for any of us to do is to stay soft, whole-hearted, and open to the world, in all its beauty and its terror.
    Reflection | By Joy Berry | May 6, 2026 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Worship
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  • On a grey couch, a Black woman reclines back, though out of focus. On her denim-clad knee, and the center of focus, is a shaggy white dog resting its head. She has one hand wrapped affectionately in the fur on the back of the dog's head.
    Care is the soil we prepare so that the roots of authentic relationship can grow.
    Reflection | By Melissa Jeter | April 29, 2026 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Animals, Body, Brokenness, Family, Healing, Love, Worship
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  • An abstract, fluid pattern of pale ripples dashed with vibrant cords of color: violet, gold, hot pink, etc.
    I love you because your transness is not something you overcame—it is something you are.

    Affirmation | By Jami Yandle | April 10, 2026 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Anti-Oppression, Awe, Beauty, Identity, Joy, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Solidarity, Worship
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  • Four leaves float on very calm water. The leaves, perhaps from a beech tree, are shades of yellow, red, and orange.
    Golden leaves and harvest cheer, We gather close as frost draws near. But whispers rise from warming seas; A planet pleads beneath the trees…
    Blessing, Poetry, Prayer | By Brian C. Lee | April 8, 2026 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Autumnal Equinox, Earth, Environment, Fall, Interdependence, Thanksgiving, Worship
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  • In front of a glass wall facing an airport runway where a plane takes off, a line of diverse passengers lines up with luggage as if preparing to board a flight.
    These people: they are mine and I am theirs.
    Reflection | By Karen G. Johnston | March 18, 2026 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Worship
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  • alt text: Alt text: a close-up of a person's outstretched arms and hands. They're wearing a brown fleece jacket, and their palms are facing the sky as if in surrender or prayer.
    In contemplating what's beyond my control, I surrender to The Universe that which I can not accomplish.
    Reflection | By Mary Shelden | March 11, 2026 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Creativity, Faith, Mystery, Personal Stories, Power, Spiritual Practice, Trust, Vulnerability, Wisdom, Worship
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  • A knobby yellow safety tread panel, of the kind used near curb cuts or at the edge of subway platforms, seen from above. The shoes of the photographer visible at the edge.
    For too long, we have been fed the misconception that our worth is tied to our productivity, leaving disabled people to be viewed as less vital to the wholeness of our beloved communities.
    Responsive Reading | By Laura McGuire | March 8, 2026 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: #DisabilityJustice, Anti-Oppression, Body, Community, Dignity, Equity, Human Rights, Inclusion, Interdependence, Oppression, Privilege, Worship
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  • Three floors of shelving in the Stockholm public library, filled with books, viewed from a walkway on the third floor. The wood-panelled room has curved walls, and the shelving follows the gentle curve away from the viewer.
    In the spirit of the ever-searching mind and the deep questioning soul, we call to mind beloved books and their wisdom.
    Responsive Reading | By Emily R. Mace | March 6, 2026 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Arts & Music, Community, Connections, Courage, Creativity, Joy, Justice, Love, Vision, Wisdom, Worship
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  • A wave crashing explosively against a rocky coastline. Most of the frame is filled with the white splashing water, but in the background there is light blue sky and dark blue ocean.
    Aarav Arikara reads his reflection “I Reclaim My Power,” about the challenges and joys of being a trans man.
    Reflection | By Aarav Arikara | March 6, 2026 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Coming Out, Gender, Gratitude, Growth, Identity, Joy, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, National Coming Out Day, Personal Stories, Pride Sunday, Worship
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