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Creative Pilgrimage
Creative Pilgrimage: June 2025-May 2026
This year, I’m letting my faith shape how I live—and how I create. I’ve known what I believe for a long time. But I didn’t think I could build a life around it. I thought I was too queer, too damaged, too far from home.
But grace is stubborn. Over time, I’ve stopped trying to prove I belong and started showing up as I am—with honesty, with care, with a heart that wants to serve.
This isn’t a project. It’s a rhythm. I move through the church calendar month by month—reading, making, praying. I draw. I write. I sit still. Some of what I make gets shared. Most of it doesn’t. That’s not the point. The point is staying close to the Spirit.
Letting creativity be devotion, not a way to check out.
Beginning again. Slowly. Faithfully. Honestly. Willing to go into the world rooted in my faith, open to learning from others.
If you’ve ever felt like an outsider and still believed your gifts mattered—you’re in good company.
This is how I keep going.
Artifacts from My Journey
Reading List
Beyond reading selections of the Bible, I am working to read two books in the month listed. Excited and nervous!
JUNE | Pride: Queer Holiness
- Book of Ruth Read on Bible Gateway
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Revelations of Divine Love
by Julian of Norwich
Read for free on Project Gutenberg
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Devotion: Why I Write
by Patti Smith
Purchase from Yale University Press
JULY | Season After Pentecost: Ongoing Growth
- Book of Acts
- An Altar in the World
by Barbara Brown Taylor
Available at HarperCollins
- Emergent Strategy
by adrienne maree brown
Available at AK Press
AUGUST | Season After Pentecost: Ongoing Growth
- Book of 1 Samuel
- The Shape of Content
by Ben Shahn
Purchase from Harvard University Press
- Beholding: Deepening Our Experience in God
by Strahan Coleman
Available at David C. Cook
- Book of Isaiah
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard
Read for free on Internet Archive
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Devotions
by Mary Oliver
Available at Penguin Random House
OCTOBER | All Saints / All Souls: Legacy, Grief, Ancestry
- Book of Luke
- New Seeds of Contemplation
by Thomas Merton
Free PDF from FishEaters
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My Bright Abyss
by Christian Wiman
Available at Macmillan Publishers
NOVEMBER | Christ the King: Power & Servanthood
- Book of Hebrews
- Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
by John O'Donohue
Available at Inkwell Management
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This Here Flesh
by Cole Arthur Riley
Available at Penguin Random House
- Book of Exodus
- Jesus and the Disinherited
by Howard Thurman
Read for free on Internet Archive
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Braiding Sweetgrass
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Available at Milkweed Editions
- Book of Amos
- The Cross and the Lynching Tree
by James H. Cone
Available at Orbis Books -
Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community
by Wendell Berry
Available at Counterpoint Press
- Book of Mark
- The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
Read for free on Internet Archive
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Art on My Mind: Visual Politics
by bell hooks
Available at bell hooks Books
- Book of John
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On the Spiritual in Art
by Wassily Kandinsky
Available at Penguin Random House
- Art and Faith: A Theology of Making
by Makoto Fujimura
Available at Yale University Press
APRIL | Easter: Resurrection & Resistance
- Book of 1 Corinthians
- In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World
by Pádraig Ó Tuama
Available at Broadleaf Books
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Painting Peace: Art in a Time of Global Crisis
by Kazuaki Tanahashi
Available at Shambala Publications
- Book of Ecclesiastes
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Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit
by Corita Kent
Available at Draw Down Books
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Vision in Motion
by László Moholy-Nagy
Available at Internet Archive