It is a profoundly simple thing to put love at the center.

The moral component of history, the most necessary component, is simply a single question, asked over and over again: When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?

I need the balance of accountability and support that comes only from being in deep relationship with others.

When we live authentically, we honor the truth that all people are beloved.

Everything is different now.

As chaplains, we create spaces that provide ceremony, connection, and sanctuary.

In an era of certain oppression, living our values calls me to resistance.

Help me remember, Beloved, that the longings of my heart are never satisfied by the sprint but rather by the slow, languid meander.…

The magic of Christmas doesn't just happen: It’s made, just like how each year a miracle is celebrated. But that very first Christmas—that miracle—didn’t just happen either…

If I can do nothing more, I go out the back door and sit on the steps where the tuxedo cat rubs my leg and I look for the holy.…

May all creatures live their lives as if no human crushed asphalt / over the land or shaved ancient forests bald.

It seems to me that right now, we all need a little extra grace.

Noticing things that need our attention, and then stopping to help, is a communal habit.

Trans joy trans joy is bigger than the struggle, louder than the hate, more enduring than fear.

As a trans woman, I love the ways we sparkle; the ways we twirl. This is how I enter the world, and I've paid a high price for it my entire life.

Improbably, the wind-blown seed found its way here, to a long, beautiful stretch of land, but one that was hot, dry, and arid.…

…it is enough to release the piercing frigidity, the brittle rigidity of ice— and embrace the versatile, vital, blessing, bathing, embodiment of water.

When the storm is powerful, we need each other to weather it.

At any moment in our lives we have a choice about how to inhabit the world.

With appreciation to Timothy Snyder’s On TyrannyAs fear abounds, may courage as well. In these times, we know we will need not to turn away nor surrender in advance. In the coming years, when asked to turn away, to focus only on our own survival and to disregard our neighbors's—Knowing the...