We don’t need to understand why someone sets a boundary to respect it.

I rise on the shoulders of ancestors whose names I can not know.

It's my actions and choices that determine my connection to others.

There is no such thing as unskilled labor.

Loss binds us together undeniably.

Pleasure is one of the ways we know when we are free.

Once, during my ministerial internship, a woman I’ll call Clara came up to me during the hustle and bustle before the Sunday service. I knew that Clara struggled with anxiety; now, in great distress, she told me how anxious she was and that she didn’t know what to do. She was frantic, and I...

People of faith are experts in human kindness.

People find hope in the faith that they're held by something larger than themselves.

Mental illness is a spiritual problem as well as a psychiatric one.

Mental illnesses are sometimes called “no-casserole diseases.” People don’t bring casseroles to homes where someone is hospitalized for mental problems.

I never heard the word abortion in church when I was a child.

We must choose each other again and again, though conflict and through plenty.

We have to keep finding ways to widen the circle of care and concern.

We have a holy obligation to bring about paradise on this earth; each generation helps us do that.

To be queer is to know the ways of holding all that shimmers to the light.

We are an angry and beautiful people.

Growing connects me to ancestors who had their hands in the dirt because it was keeping them alive.

In a world of scarcity, interconnection and mutual aid become critical for survival.

Cultures of gratitude must also be cultures of reciprocity.