Bread does fill our stomachs, but it doesn’t fill our hearts– only Jesus can do that.

Grace is knowing that there is nothing—not sin, not suffering, not even death—that can separate you from God’s love.

Asking for help, leaning on the Body of Christ, is exactly what faith looks like.

Miracles have not disappeared. The abundance is there. The world is just waiting for the Body of Christ to make them happen.

True compassion springs forth from an internal feeling – a self-acceptance of ourselves and our own individual weaknesses.

The practice of faith is about building up the kind of courage we need to live the gospel.

Resting is one big way to demonstrate our trust in God’s grace. We don’t have to keep proving our strength, our worth, our faith.

I’m here to say that queer folks actively teach the rest of the world something about the Kingdom of God.

Everything Jesus did served to bring everyone into his family. His whole ministry was to bring everyone into the in-group.

The Trinity manifests a God who asks us to rest in uncertainty, a God who invites our curiosity.

If we’re just hoping to get back to normal, if we are not transformed, then we are letting the Spirit pass us by.

Each of us needs to begin to figure out how to create a space to connect with God.

Laying down our life for our friends doesn’t necessarily mean dying. Maybe we’re called to lay down a way of life.

Why do we reserve the kind of love we proclaim in our wedding vows only for our partners?

transformation can only happen when we feel like we belong to one another.

We can’t make grief go away—we all know it doesn’t—but grief evolves. It can diminish in intensity, we can and do learn to live with it.

Linda Simmons offers a homily about her work with Kizimani in Kenya.

Let us remember that it is when we learn—and when we say—one another’s names that the veil is lifted and resurrection is revealed.

By following Jesus, we learn to heal, teach, learn, speak, listen, and most of all, love all our fellow sisters and brothers.

Our call in the face of suffering is to do what God did: send Love.