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Creative Pilgrimage
Creative Pilgrimage: June 2025-May 2026
This year, I’m choosing to let my faith shape everything I do—including the way I create. For a long time, I knew what I believed. But I didn’t think I could build a life around it. I thought I was too queer, too scarred, too far from belonging.
But grace doesn’t give up. And slowly, I’ve stopped trying to prove myself and started learning how to show up—with honesty, with care, with a heart ready to serve.
This isn’t a project. It’s a practice. Each month, I move through the church calendar—reading, reflecting, making. I draw. I read. I write. I pray. I learn. Some of what I create might be shared. Much of it won’t. That’s not the point. The point is to live with intention, to stay close to the Spirit.
To let creativity be an act of devotion, not distraction.
To begin again—faithfully, slowly, truly. To go into the world guided by strong faith, willing to lovingly explore other world views.
If you’ve ever felt on the outside looking in and still believed you had something to offer, you’re not alone.
This is how I refuel and refocus.
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
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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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
- 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
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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