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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

Densil Porteous - LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith Quote “You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you.” ~Song of Solomon 4:7 (NRSV) Devotion For so many in the LGBTQIA+ community, faith has often been a battlefield—one where we’ve fought for our place, questioned our worth, and wrestled with the voices that told us we were somehow less than. We have been told we must change, suppress, or hide parts of ourselves to be welcomed at the table of faith. But what

Sunday, April 12, 2026 The Rev. Dr. Caleb Lines Allied Person of Faith LOVEboldly Advisory Board Quote “Then he said to Thomas, ‘Put your finger here. Look at my hands. Put your hand into my side. No more disbelief. Believe!’” John 20:27 (NRSV) Devotion I love Thomas’ story! “Doubting Thomas” gets a bad rap for questioning, though. Maybe it’s because I’m originally from the “Show Me State,” but I’ve always felt an affinity for Thomas. I, too, need to see it to belie

Sunday, April 5, 2026 - Easter Sunday The Rev. Charles Graves, IV LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith Quote “We are an Easter people, moving through a Good Friday world.” ~Bishop Barbara Harris, Hallelujah, Anyhow! Devotion As a preacher, I’ll let you in on a little secret—for a long time I’ve been less than enthusiastic about Easter. After all, what more could I add from any pulpit to the joy of Christ’s Resurrection? Jesus is alive, our salvation is restored, and we again s

Saturday, April 4, 2026 - Holy Saturday Jordan Morrow LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith Quote Holy Saturday is the only time I know for sure that Jesus is near in suffering. As a gay man, I know what it’s like to be crucified by people you love and sit in the tomb with the aftermath. Devotion Holy Saturday is the one day that the Church routinely turns it’s face away from. It’s the day that God goes quiet. Jesus was hung on the cross and placed in the tomb. The world just cruc

Friday, April 3, 2026 - Good Friday The Rev. Brian Steele Allied Person of Faith LOVEboldly Board Member Quote “God loves you and there’s nothing you can do about it.” The Rev. Brian Steele Devotion About 13 years ago I was sitting in a room with LOVEboldly folks, and it hit me: I am the only straight white male in this room. “Well,” I thought, “this is weird.” Truthfully, as I sat there, I realized what I was experiencing was actually discomfort. For the first time

Thursday, April 2, 2026 - Maundy Thursday The Rev. Morgan Annable Allied Person of Faith Quote When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once. Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and as I said to the Jews so now, I say to you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’ I give

Tuesday, March 31, 2026 - Trans Day of Visibility Jonathan L. A. Morgan LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith Quote “Look at Behemoth, which I made just as I made you; it eats grass like an ox… It is the first of the great acts of God; only its Maker can approach it with the sword… Even if the river is turbulent, it is not frightened; it is confident though Jordan rushes against its mouth... “Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook or press down its tongue with a cord? Can you p

Sunday, March 29, 2026 The Rev. Amy Aspey Allied Person of Faith Quote “The people were hoping he would be a mighty warrior chief, like their ancestor Much Loved One (David), to set them free from the People of Iron (Romans.) But he did not ride a warhorse on that day, as one might expect. Instead, he rode a small, humble donkey colt. He came weeping over the Village of Peace (Jerusalem), but even this could not silence the hopes of the crowd. The people encircle him, front a

The Rev. Dr. Ben Huelskamp LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith Executive Director, LOVEboldly 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.” -John 15:5 (NRSV) Devotion Every day I walk past a tree in my neighborhood that shouldn’t exist. It’s rooted in a crack in the sidewalk, no more than three inches wide, surrounded by concrete on all sides. By every reasonable measure, it should have withere

Lis K. Regula, PhD LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith Quote “The Lord called to Moses and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying: Speak to the people of Israel and say to them: When any of you brings an offering to the Lord, you shall bring your offering of livestock from the herd or from the flock.” -Leviticus 1:1-2 Devotion Parshat Vayikra begins not with thunder or lightning, but with a quiet moment: God calls to Moses from the Tent of Meeting. The Hebrew word vayikra — “and

The Rev. Dr. Marian Stewart LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith Quote “Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.” ~Mark 1:35 (NIV) Devotion Sleep o glorious sleep. How I want just one hour more. On this ‘spring forward’ morning of Daylight Savings, I am reminded of all the virtuous exhortations to rise early to pray. Be like Jesus. Rise before dawn, go outside and find a quiet spot to be alone. Pra

The Rev. Lucy Kelly Allied Person of Faith Quote “When what we offer folks is a restricted diet of love and do not provide an equal portion of justice, we are only talking about a partial gospel — not a whole one.” -Emilie Townes, “In a Blaze of Glory” (1995) Devotion Read John 3:17. During an intergenerational reflection event for the play, The Laramie Project , a college student asked a question, “If hate is usually shouted, and love is often a gentle whisper…how do we make

Maggie LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith Quote “For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.” -Matthew 18:20 (NRSV) Devotion I used to think church had to look a certain way. Pews and steeples, organs and offering plates, people dressed in their Sunday best nodding along to sermons that never quite made room for people like me. For a long time, I believed that if I couldn’t find Jesus in those spaces or if those spaces couldn’t find room for me, then maybe I

Alejandro Rodriguez LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith Devotion Ash Wednesday is full of ritual. Taking the palms from last year’s Palm Sunday to create the ashes we mark our foreheads with. It’s a visible sign. It makes a bold statement about who we are as people of faith. The ashes are a sign of repentance and the stance we will take over Lent. As my faith has evolved, I’ve struggled more and more with rituals of the church. I’m having a really tough time connecting. I know a huge pa

Jon Carl Lewis LGBTQIA+ Person of Faith Quote Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became dazzling white. Suddenly there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him. Then Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here; if you wish, I will make three dwellings here, one for you, one for Moses