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Sunday, August 23, 2026 Lisa Vahey Allied Person of Faith Quote And God will delight when we are creators of justice and joy, compassion and peace: yes, God will delight when we are creators of justice, justice and joy! ~For Everyone Born Devotion These words are the refrain of Shirley Erena Murray’s hymn, For Everyone Born, which has been beautifully updated with revised lyrics by Avery Arden at Binary Breaking Worship. Here is one of their new inclusive verses:

Sunday, August 16, 2026 Yaseen LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith Quote “Ordain for us what is good in this life and the next. Indeed, we have turned to You in repentance.” Allah replied, “I will inflict My torment on whoever I will. But My mercy encompasses everything.” ~Al-A’raf 156 Devotion I love this passage and God’s promise that his “mercy encompasses everything.” He doesn’t say, “my mercy is available under certain conditions” or “my mercy extends to those who meet th

Sunday, August 9, 2026 Clare LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith Quote “So, if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.” ~John 8:36 (NRSV) Devotion August is wandering season. Vacation time. Road trips with no particular destination. Long evenings when the light stretches out and you’re not quite sure where the day went. There’s a looseness to August that the rest of the year doesn’t quite have. A permission to meander. I’ve been thinking lately about how much of Que

Sunday, August 2, 2026 The Rev. Felicia Melcorledi De Rosa LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith Quote “Receive love when it is offered, and offer love regardless. Yet do not allow the duality of love to cause you despair. For love can lift up your heart and it can likewise drag it down. Accept love in the manner in which it comes to you. Do not possess it, or attempt to control or shape it. For love is free, and shall come or go in its manner.” ~Aradia de Tuscano Devotion The summ

Sunday, July 26, 2026 Shonda - LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith Quote “The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it.” ~Genesis 2:15 (NRSVUE) Devotion Late July in the garden is humbling work. The early enthusiasm of spring planting is long gone. The weeds are relentless. Some plants have flourished beyond expectation while others have simply given up despite your best efforts. Everything needs water, needs attention, needs something from

Sunday, July 19, 2026 Arnav LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith Quote “Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.” ~Luke 5:4 (NRSV) Devotion Peter had been fishing all night and caught nothing. He was tired, his nets were empty, and he was ready to call it quits. Then Jesus shows up and tells him to try again, but this time, to go deeper. I imagine Peter’s skepticism. He was the professional here. He knew these waters. He’d already tried everything. And

Sunday, July 12, 2026 Kelly Crouch LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith LOVEboldly Board Member Alum Quote O Lord, you have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, O Lord, you know it completely. ~Psalm 139:1-4 Devotion I learned the truth about my Transness during the first winter of

Sunday, July 5, 2026 The Rev. Dr. Ben Huelskamp LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith Executive Director, LOVEboldly Quote “For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.” ~Galatians 5:1 (NRSVUE) Devotion The fireworks are over. The cookouts are done. The flags are coming down. It’s the day after Independence Day, and everything feels a little quieter, a little more ordinary. I've always had complicated feelings about the

June 30, 2026 - Queer Youth of Faith Day Gwendolyn G. De Rosa LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith Quote “I trade all I’ve known for the unknown ahead.” ~The Rings of Power Devotion Do you have a comfort movie? You know, one of those movies that you can watch when you’re stuck at home with a fever, or you’re going through a messy break-up, or something horrific happened in the news again. The Lord of the Rings (LotR) films are my comfort movies. The story of The Lord of the R

Sunday, June 28, 2026 - Fourth Sunday of Pride Month The Rev. Julia Joyce-Miesse LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith Quote “Do the work that your soul must have.” ~The Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon Devotion “What do you want to be when you grow up?” This is a question often posed to young children as they enter school. I love the feisty passion that bubbles through their little beings. “An astronaut!” exclaims one young one. “A garbage collector!” bellows another. “A horse hair

Sunday, June 21, 2026 - Third Sunday of Pride Month The Rev. Iva Joyce-Miesse LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith LOVEboldly Board Member Quote “And a voice from heaven said, ‘This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.’” Matthew 3:17 (NIV) Devotion Each year as the third Sunday of June arrives, two observances come into a unique focus and juxtaposition within my consciousness. Both are, at their core, about identity and belonging—one celebrating the freedom to li

Friday, June 19, 2026 The Rev. Dr. Judy Alston LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith Quote So, if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.” John 8:36 (NRSV) Devotion Each June, two significant movements for liberation come together: Juneteenth and Pride Month. Juneteenth marks the delayed announcement of freedom to enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, in 1865. Pride Month honors the courage, dignity, and visibility of LGBTQIA+ individuals who, at Stonewall an

Sunday, June 14, 2026 - Second Sunday of Pride Month Min. Blyth Barnow LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith Quote “We were made in God's image, which does not speak to perfection but to the vastness of possibility and the irrefutability of our worth.” Devotion I believe the world is beautiful. Or I suppose I should say, I believe the world was made to be beautiful. I never understood a condemning, punishing God. Only humans could create a deity that is so self-hating. No, I trus

Sunday, June 7, 2026 - Pride Sunday The Rev. Dr. Joelle Henneman LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith Quote “I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well.” ~Psalm 139:14 (NRSV) Devotion Or as I like to say: “You are Queerfully and wonderfully made.” There’s something holy that happens when you hear the truth about yourself and believe it. For many of us in the LGBTQIA+ community, we’ve spent years being told we’re “t

Sunday, May 31, 2026 - Trinity Sunday Jon Carl Lewis LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith Quote “I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.” ~Matthew 15:5 (NRSV) Devotion The Sunday after Pentecost is celebrated in many branches of the church as “Trinity Sunday.” Beginning on the fourth Sunday before Christmas, we have marked the life of Jesus from before his birth (Advent), his taking huma

Sunday, May 24, 2026 - Pentecost Siobhan Boyd-Nelson LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith LOVEboldly Board Chair Quote “Pentecost is about being empowered to get beyond the strictures created by these silos and find our way to one another beyond race, gender, empire, or nationality. It is about moving to a place where we can see the entire family of God as one family.” ~Bishop Yvette Flunder Devotion How big is our God? Most of us would say that our God is enormous, infinite, o

Sunday, May 17, 2026 Lisa Vahey Allied Person of Faith Devotion Oh, amazing Lord, what a gift you’ve given us in libraries. Like churches, they can hold us in quiet and contemplation. Like churches, they can spring to life – workshops, meetings, little ones singing at story time, youth tumbling in afterschool, all kinds of community gatherings - the busyness of our community, the hub of our humanity. And our librarians are angels here on earth. Helping without judgeme

Sunday, May 10, 2026 Karen Marie LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith Quote “Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” Galatians 6:9 (NRSV) Devotion This verse lands like a hand on the shoulder and a whisper in the soul. A reminder that the calendar keeps turning, but the call remains steady: keep planting good in the world, even when the ground feels stubborn. Keep showing up, even when your spirit feels like it’s

Sunday, May 3, 2026 Bishop Tim Wolfe LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith Quotes “Be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us, and gave Himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.” ~Ephesians 5:1-2 (CEB) “The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.” ~St. Gregory the Great Devotion Those quotes are a sermon all by themselves. Love is much more t

Sunday, April 26, 2026 Kevin Marsh LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith Quote They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in th