The spiritual touchstones I trust are found in community.

Happy kids are safer kids, because happy kids have adults they can ask for help.

We could have assimilated but instead / we rededicate

May the rainbow of love enfold you; may your fluidity never be hindered.

When disability is understood as dependency, disability is posited in direct contrast to American ideals of independence and autonomy.

Disability is often elusive and changing.

Every creature is an embodiment of the Love of the Universe.

Spirit of Life who dwells before and between and beyond all words… we open ourselves to you.

I was leaving my mom in another world, located far away from mine.

Shame seems to be a bestselling product pumped out of all these crushing systems.

Dear Creative Life Force, the infinite healing power of creativity is the best gift you've given to us.

Help me live in gratitude for the LGBTQ+ ancestors who paved this road we walk and roll on.

What’s the one word you hope will define your upcoming year?

To be a Unitarian Universalist means we’ll never be done with the work.

I do not believe the acts of oppressors are my people's shame.

The drag show was heaven broken open, given to us for the evening. Everything for a little while was perfect—and I saw the face of my God.

Note: Rev. Margaret Weis invites you to replace "church" with "congregation" or "Fellowship" if that feels most appropriate for your community. The church is not a place; it is a people. The church is not only a steeple above the treeline, streets, and cars....

Ironically, Americans who self-identify as not racist—whether they're conservatives, moderates, liberals, radicals, progressives—they don't realize… that we are connecting ourselves to a history of slave traders who self-identified as not racist (although they didn't use that term). We're...

When you’re the only black man in a sea of whiteness, purses still get clutched, and people still cross the street, and hellos still get lost in the void.

The first time I was told that I was too queer to be a congregation's minister, they asked, "What will the neighbors think?,” as if it were the most natural question in the world. It was then that I understood how grace works: it’s costly. It requires us to be uncomfortable, to get outside...