Everybody is following somebody. Everybody has faith in something and somebody. We are all believers.

Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.

Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this.

What we do comes out of who we believe we are.

We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we journey with for years who are gay. And we need to love, affirm and all of us together work on the real problems that we have in the world.

To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking flesh and turning it back into words.

We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.