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Embody me.
Flare up like flame
and make big shadows I can move in.
—Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours
Father Richard invites us to know and honor ourselves and others in all our complexity:
For you who have loved Jesus, do you recognize that any God worthy of the name includes and transcends creeds and denominations, ti...
The Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis reflects on the liberating impact of receiving unconditional love:
If you are a parent, you’re present at important moments of discovery and growth all along the way…. You get to be wise and also glean wisdom from that person forming right before your eyes. Watch, observe, see what is becoming; celebrate the mystery of what is un...
Everyone carries their own true self in their own way, in their own words, and in their own time.
—Cassidy Hall, Queering Contemplation
CAC team member Cassidy Hall reflects on our impulse to ask questions of those we see as fundamentally different than us:
“When did you know?” “How did you find out you were queer?” “When did you fir...
The Rt. Rev. Michael Curry considers how God is always leading us beyond what we think we know:
There will be a time when God’s GPS points you in a direction that makes people uncomfortable. It may make you uncomfortable. The evolution of long-held beliefs can be a spiritual earthquake; the ground beneath us shaking, the very fault lines of our i...
Father Richard affirms God’s desire for us to know and welcome all of ourselves and others:
God is clearly more comfortable with diversity than we are, and God’s final goal and objective are much simpler. God and the entire cosmos are about two things: differentiation (people and things becoming themselves) and communion (living in suppo...