Category: Inclusion & Diversity
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Love these Human Bodies
Our bodies are gifts of God, but cultural messages, practical challenges, aging, and loss can complicate our relationship with this holy gift. This text is a reminder to care for ourselves and one another. Love these human bodiesfashioned, filled, and claimed,fragile yet resilient,fierce with will untamed,made of clay and spirit,made of flesh and bone,sacred sanctuary,home…
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Give Me A Name
Our names carry many layers of meaning. Sometimes we need a new name—literal or symbolic—to remember or share who we really are. This text is for the many moments when we may feel the need to be renamed or reclaimed: at baptism, after a gender transition, following divorce, or beyond. Whoever we are, and whatever…
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As We Are, We Are Yours
Faith calls us to be transformed, and to transform the world around us. But too often, churches and societies have mistaken what it is that needs to be changed. This text invites us to celebrate the joyful affirmation of God as the starting point of our personal and collective transformation. God accepts us as we are,…
Hannah C Brown 