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In our Gospel this week, Jesus makes a world-altering request: that his followers might be united with him just as he is united with God the Father. “Jesus speaks of an eternal union — the grand weave of humanity swept up into the mystical life of the Trinity itself,” writes Summerlee Staten. “Beyond time and founded on an overflowing love.”

Recommended by Trinity clergy and staff, the hand-picked books on this Pride reading list — from poetry to science fiction, theology to memoir — will comfort you, inspire you, and dare you to settle into the goodness of all God’s creation. And that includes you.

It takes faith to live in a world that denies protections to the most vulnerable, where the dignity of every human being is not respected. But not just any faith. “It’s a faith,” writes the Rev. Yein Kim, “birthed in the greatest gift Jesus leaves us: God’s peace.”

What does it mean to truly love one another? It looks a lot like doing the things Jesus did: healing the sick, feeding the hungry, liberating the captive. “In Jesus, we encounter a God who turns down power and wealth and chooses to spend his time with the outcast,” writes the Rev. Matthew Welsch. “We encounter a God who chooses to serve others rather than to be served.”