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Church 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... more...
Filters: Believe Out Loud - BlogMon, 23 Nov 2020
Physical Movement Is A Form of Self-Love
Photo credit: Marianna Cardozo (Lake Laura, Bayse, VA) But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every ligament with which it is equipped, as each part is working properly, promotes the body’s growth in building itself... more...
Filters: Believe Out Loud - BlogWed, 1 Jul 2020
The Role of the UN in Combatting Racism in the...
The Civil Rights Movement ushered in an era of monumental activism in the fight against centuries of grotesque injustice and violence against the Black community in the United States. In 1951, a group of Black activists from the Civil Rights Congress wrote a petition to the United Nations titled “We Charge Genocide: The... more...
Filters: Believe Out Loud - BlogMon, 22 Jun 2020
Pride Conversations: A Q&A with Ross Murray of...
Pride Month this year is unlike any other. With so much change in the world around us, one thing remains the same: the significance of Pride to LGBT people, their friends and families. To help share and spread Pride this month, we’re conducting a series of Pride Conversations. These brief Q&As are designed to help expand on the... more...
Filters: Believe Out Loud - BlogThu, 11 Jun 2020
Pride Conversations: A Q&A with Justin Fyala of...
Pride Month this year is unlike any other. With so much change in the world around us, one thing remains the same: the significance of Pride to LGBT people, their friends and families. To help share and spread Pride this month, we’re conducting a series of Pride Conversations on this blog. These brief Q&As are designed to help... more...
Filters: Believe Out Loud - BlogThu, 23 Apr 2020
Ramadan Mubarak! Ramadan Shamil!
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... more...
Filters: Believe Out Loud - BlogSun, 12 Apr 2020
Believe Out Loud’s First Easter Service
Watch here. Printable Worship Bulletin (English). Printable Worship Bulletin (Spanish). Make a donation to Believe Out Loud here. Thank you for celebrating Easter with us! more...
Filters: Believe Out Loud - BlogMon, 6 Apr 2020
My Isolation Experience: Anna
Rarely have these words by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., resonated as strongly as in these days of globally experienced fear, trauma and despair: “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” In our individual isolation, we – the Believe Out Loud team – want to... more...
Filters: Believe Out Loud - BlogFri, 3 Apr 2020
Confessions of a Local Pastor
The lead deacon at my church called me several days into our mandated social distancing (I cannot recall which day he spoke to me because all the days blend into one another.) and asked if he could post encouraging words daily on our Facebook page. He commented that he had not seen many pastors or religious leaders publicly... more...
Filters: Believe Out Loud - BlogTue, 31 Mar 2020
Being alone with God: Reflections on The Soul of...
[Above: Joy Ladin reads at the Intersections office on March 10, 2020] On March 10, 2020, Believe Out Loud and Intersections hosted author and academic Joy Ladin in our New York office for a reading and discussion celebrating her book The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective. It was an evening of... more...
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