My seminary classmate was 30 years older than me. I sat in his small apartment, hoping for the kind of wisdom and guidance I had already come to know he might provide. Read more »

Our liberal religious covenant… is to trust one another enough… to seek help when we’re down and to offer assistance when we’re able. Read more »

A covenant is not a contract. It is not made and signed and sealed once and for all, sent to the attorneys for safekeeping or guarded under glass in a museum. Read more »

We are being invited into a place where we move from an idea to an experience. Read more »

I often wonder if there is much more going on with free will than meets the eye, especially when it comes to finding and joining a spiritual community. Read more »

The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. —Maya Angelou

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” —James Baldwin

“Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” —Hebrews 13:2

“Home is where one starts from.”—T.S. Eliot

“Out beyond idea of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”—Jalal ad-Din Rumi

“Perhaps home is not a place, but simply an irrevocable condition.” —James Baldwin

“Visitor’s footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick.” —African Proverb

It always surprises me when people tell me how brave I am for being openly transgender. It doesn’t seem like bravery to me because I know how painful it was to live in the “before”… Read more »

Some of us have been able to escape the bonds of belief systems that condemn us through religious hate-speak. As an “escapee,” I offer you words of comfort: You are not an abomination. You are not flawed. You are good and worthy, and you deserve to live life in an unfragmented fashion…as well as confident that you deserve to ...Read more »

What does it mean to belong to the Earth? At present, it seems that our western culture has slowly devolved into a culture of dissociation … Read more »

The ideal of diversity meets the messiness of putting multi-racial living into practice in both our family and our spiritual homes. Read more »

Over the years, we learned that gender too was one of the seeds that would only emerge in time. How beautiful it has been to watch as our beloved child has bloomed, in gender and identity and expression. Read more »

Well-meaning people explain that it doesn’t matter what religion I choose, but I must choose, and only one. Only then, they say, can I go truly deep into a religion. Read more »