Justice, simple justice, is the right, not simply of the strong and powerful, but of the weakest and feeblest of all God’s children.

May we be kind in our speaking, thoughtful in our deliberating, and never stray from the love that binds us together.

This ritual is written for a congregation to bless a Black Lives Matter banner and raise it on their church building. It could easily be adapted for rededication of a banner, or for other banners that a congregation might display on their building to declare their values.

Being nonbinary has finally brought me home to myself.

A universalist God for a tragic era is not a gauzy, hymn-singing force of personal devotion that draws us endlessly toward itself, but a fierce and compelling power that grips us by the collar amid our rebellious descent and calls us to choose the will to mutuality…

The essence that is you—that spark of life, is in your body; is of your body; and it is—you are—divine.

My queerness is about mindset and attitude and intention.

This glitter that we share with each other today is a reminder that each of us is beautiful in our sacred imperfection, our ever-changing selves, our glorious plurality.

I have often felt the divine most present when I feel dissolved into a holy community.

It takes a community to remember someone in all of their many facets.

Dear world, how does love right now move me to action?

We come into consciousness in the middle of the story...

Harm of one is harm of all.

We proclaim with Love on our side: Our bodies are sacred. Our minds are blessed. Our spirits are beloved.

Today, we are charged to remember. To know that as we live together in community, we are also in community with the silently singing lives in the vast congregation of the earth as well... Let us remember, and then act.

When I remember to orient myself within the bigger picture, it recalibrates my perspective.

Crows found ways to adapt to our concrete forests but we have not yet found ways to make sure we are in balance with the rest of creation.

Some geologists believe that gases from the earth caused the Delphic oracle’s fits of passion and her prophecies. But the scientific answer does not mean the Greeks were foolish to believe they had a relationship with Apollo; it does not erase the relationship they had with their gods.

Disturbance opens the terrain for transformative encounters… Humanists, not used to thinking with disturbance, connect the term with damage. But disturbance, as used by ecologists, is not always bad—and not always human.

All organisms make ecological living places, altering earth, air, and water... In the process, each organism changes everyone’s world.