Spiritual Affirmation
We’re excited to share our Advent devotional! May peace and light accompany us as we move through the Advent season. Please click on the image below to download our Advent reader – formatted for at-home printing:
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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…
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July 15th is recognized as National Give Something Away Day. The day was created to provide individuals and communities with the opportunity to share their plentiful blessings with others without expectations or limitations. The majority of us are blessed to have more than what is necessary to live, but some are lacking supplies and items…
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Printable Worship Bulletin (English). Printable Worship Bulletin (Spanish). Make a donation to Believe Out Loud’s #GiveOutDay campaign here. Thank you for celebrating Pride with us!
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So, what do we do? Keep on sinning so God can keep on forgiving? I should hope not! If we’ve left the empire where sin is dominant, how can we continue to make a home there? Did someone forget to tell you we packed up and left there for good? That is what happened in…
Read MoreHow long must I wrestle with my thought and day after day have sorrow in my heart How long will my enemy triumph over me? -Psalms 13:2 Shavuot is one of the biblically-based pilgrimage holidays known as the shalosh regalim. It is celebrated as the divine revelation of the Hebrew Bible, the Torah. Pentecost is…
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We don’t often think about Ascension Day as one of the important Christian holidays; however, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Just as Christmas and Easter remind us of the incarnation of Jesus Christ and the resurrection of Emmanuel, Ascension Day solidifies the fact that God is with us. Through the ascension of Christ,…
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At this moment, I think we all feel a bit traumatized. The quality of life we are experiencing is not like anything most of us have ever lived through before. In this time of physical distancing, our thoughts are even more engaged. As we spend more time in mental solitude, it can become quite easy…
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Ramadan Mubarak! Attempts to establish a lexicon of non-degrading appropriate terms for the LGBT community in Arabic is an ongoing process first traced back to the end of the 1990’s. In 2003, a group of LGBT identifying Arab women call the Mujadarra Grrls, published a bilingual glossary of positive expressions of sexuality in Arabic that…
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There are so many lessons to learn in this time of COVID-19, and specifically throughout Eastertide, the 50-day period between Easter Sunday and Pentecost Sunday. On a positive note, we have witnessed the uniting of humanity. We have seen people come together, quickly to combat colossal issues. On a challenging note, we cringe at the…
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