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Creative Pilgrimage: Year One
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, but that’s not the point. The point is staying close to the Spirit, letting creativity be devotion, not a way to check out.
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.
Beyond reading selections of the Bible, I am working to read two books in the month listed. Excited and nervous!
- Book of Ruth
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Revelations of Divine Love
by Julian of Norwich
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Devotion: Why I Write
by Patti Smith
JULY | Season After Pentecost: Ongoing Growth
- Book of Acts
- An Altar in the World
by Barbara Brown Taylor
- Emergent Strategy
by adrienne maree brown
AUGUST | Season After Pentecost: Ongoing Growth
- Book of 1 Samuel
- The Shape of Content
by Ben Shahn
- Beholding: Deepening Our Experience in God
by Strahan Coleman
- Book of Isaiah
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard
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Devotions
by Mary Oliver
OCTOBER | All Saints / All Souls: Legacy, Grief, Ancestry
- Book of Luke
- New Seeds of Contemplation
by Thomas Merton
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My Bright Abyss
by Christian Wiman
NOVEMBER | Christ the King: Power & Servanthood
- Book of Hebrews
- Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
by John O'Donohue
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This Here Flesh
by Cole Arthur Riley
- Book of Exodus
- Jesus and the Disinherited
by Howard Thurman
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Braiding Sweetgrass
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Book of Amos
- The Cross and the Lynching Tree
by James H. Cone -
Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community
by Wendell Berry
Book of MarkThe Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
Art on My Mind: Visual Politics
by bell hooks
- Book of John
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On the Spiritual in Art
by Wassily Kandinsky
- Art and Faith: A Theology of Making
by Makoto Fujimura
APRIL | Easter: Resurrection & Resistance
- Book of 1 Corinthians
- In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World
by Pádraig Ó Tuama
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Painting Peace: Art in a Time of Global Crisis
by Kazuaki Tanahashi
- Book of Ecclesiastes
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Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit
by Corita Kent
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Vision in Motion
by László Moholy-Nagy