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.

… By Sheri Prud’homme The patchwork quilt of our theological heritage is torn … to be with the broken and the beautiful, the contradictions, and …

There is a mandate emerging from our theological heritage to dismantle the structures and systems which silence, harm, and exploit human beings and the varied ecosystems of our planet…

In an era when it is becoming clear that industrialized nations under a system of global corporation-controlled capitalism need to change quickly and dramatically for the benefit of all life, we will be called to experience generosity, gratitude, and hope in new ways.

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.

… that there are many paths to the sacred. We hold fast to the notion …

… increasing religious plurality in our congregations has brought in perspectives and practices from earth-based religions of many kinds, amplifying an understanding of humankind as one part of a great interconnected web of all existence and deepening our humility and reverence for the web of life.