Loving your neighbor isn’t a suggestion—it’s a commandment.
Yet in today’s world, communities are more divided than ever, and too many people have stopped listening to their neighbors, let alone loving them.
As someone raised in an Evangelical Christian home in the Ozarks, my commitment to walking with Jesus was so strong that it led me right out of Christianity at age 17. Over the years, I’ve sought wisdom from many traditions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Pagan, and varying Christian cultures, until my direct, personal experience of God led me to a pursuitless place of stillness and knowing.
What I have found is this: Truth does not contradict itself.
“Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.”
John 3:20-21
I’m not here to change anyone’s mind about transgender issues, race, or any other social topic. I am here to invite you to step into the light—and begin to understand issues that are harming your neighbors, rather than choosing to remain willfully unaware and willfully hurting them.
I am here to help you love your neighbors better.
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8
How a person receives the message, and what you do or don’t do once you’ve heard it, is between you and God.
Building Bridges Between Neighbors
✔ Facilitating Hard but Healing Conversations – Creating space for congregations to discuss difference, belonging, and faith with honesty and integrity.
✔ Biblically Grounded Inclusion – With Christian audiences, exploring what scripture truly calls for when it comes to loving “the least of these” among our neighbors.
✔ Culturally Respectful Communication – Engaging with people of any faith tradition through the lens of their own beliefs, I help clergy, leaders, and communities explore the pivotal questions that deepen their understanding and practice, ensuring that faith remains a bridge rather than a barrier to meaningful connection.
✔ Community Engagement & Bridge-Building – Helping churches connect with people beyond their walls in ways that align with the community-building, mutually respectful discipline and care they are called to fulfill.
✔ Understanding Your Neighbors’ Stories – Offering evidence of real people’s lives and impacts, so that when the day comes that God calls us to account, we can say we listened with open hearts.
✔ Practical Support for Faith-Based Leaders – Providing guidance, mediation, and resources for churches seeking to navigate cultural divides or specific parishioner issues, while maintaining a well-calibrated moral compass.
My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
James 1:19-20
Listening to God Over the Noise
Many people in conservative faith organizations may hold strong opinions about transgender people, homosexuality, or social justice. That’s between you and God. I invite genuine repair and understanding through the simplest of questions:
Are you listening to God, or the television?
Are you willing to step into the light of truth?
Because if the Church is to be a place of healing, it cannot be a place of willful ignorance. If we are to stand before God and answer for how we’ve treated our neighbors today, let it not be true that we refused to listen when they most needed our love and real belonging.
Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? … First take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
Matthew 7:1-5
A Shared Goal: A Stronger, More Compassionate Community
If you want to create a more welcoming congregation, we can do that together.
If your church is struggling with division, I can help navigate and mediate those conversations.
If you’re seeking a way forward that honors both tradition and truth, let’s find it.
Faith is not meant to be lived in fear—it is meant to be lived in love.
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