Posts Tagged ‘Spiritual Reflection’
Holiday Emotions While Quarantined: A Queer Reconsideration of Intimacy and Ritual
Believe Out Loud Fridays is a new series of spiritual reflections—pieces that connect our identities and lived experiences with sacred texts and spiritual guidance. In this week’s reflection, Union Theological Seminary students and BOL interns Kimberley Gordy and Sulkiro Song draw on Scripture and ritual to embrace the moments of “wilderness” many of us experience…
Read MoreChurch Beyond Walls
Believe Out Loud Fridays is a new series of spiritual reflections—pieces that connect our identities and lived experiences with sacred texts and spiritual guidance. This week’s reflection focuses on finding communities of belonging and the meaning of church. Earlier this year, when shelter-at-home took effect, a debate arose about what constitutes a church. Both sides…
Read MorePhysical Movement Is A Form of Self-Love
Believe Out Loud Fridays is a new series of spiritual reflections – pieces that connect our identities and lived experiences with sacred texts and spiritual guidance. This week’s reflection focuses on physical exercise as a divinely aligned act of self-love. But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him…
Read MoreYom HaShoah 2020
A name is a life, a story, a whole world – relationships, thoughts, feelings and dreams, dreams, dreams. On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom HaShoah, the air we breathe is filled with lives and worlds and dreams as Jewish communities all over the world read the names of those who perished in the Holocaust. Six…
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