Love is Louder
LGBTQIA+ siblings know intimately the nature of being deemed an outcast. The clarion call for LGBTQIA+ advocacy is reverberating from state capitol rotundas, family dinner tables, city streets, and church pews.
With more than 547 anti-LGBTQIA+ bills in this year’s (2024) legislative session, our proactive response, now more than ever, needs to be love OUT LOUD.
Love is Louder: Love Your Neighbor OUT LOUD a campaign faithfully supporting the spiritual, physical, and mental well-being of LGBTQIA+ siblings by equipping faith communities with resources and tools for just action and care.
Gender & Sexuality Justice Ministries is excited to release our Love is Louder: Love OUT LOUD Pride resource kit for Pride Month! Our resource kit will release early May featuring liturgy, prayer, our 2nd Love is Louder Toolkit focusing on Queer Theology & Expansive Language, June event offerings and more!
Gender & Sexuality Justice Ministries prophetically brings to life a new campaign rooted in the spirit of Christ’s call to love our neighbors as ourselves.
Share Your Story
Scripture reminds us how love never fails and always hopes. Love is Louder is about “US” and how we as Church love each other and our world well. At the Genesis of our faith, God created us in their image and through Jesus’ wisdom we are reminded of a simple truth: go and love your neighbor as you love yourself.
Will you join us in sharing how you’re embracing loving your neighbor OUT LOUD as a means of hope and spreading love?
Love OUT LOUD Videos
Submit your Love is Louder: Love Your Neighbor OUT LOUD videos and find your message of love throughout the remainder of the year on our United Church of Christ socials.
Submit this form to receive the link via email to share your video!
Love is Louder: The Book of Love
Let’s create a tapestry of our voices in an offering we’re calling, “Love is Louder: The Book of Love.”
Our hope is to fill this Book of Love with liturgy, poetry, and devotional offerings. We’re seeking submissions up to 600 words. Submissions will close April 1.
This book will be a digital release in May to support Pride Month in June and year-round inclusive offerings for the Church.
If you’d like to submit an offering for consideration, please fill out form below.
Submit Your Contribution to the Book of Love
Please ensure you are providing references if utilizing quotes / commentaries / non-original ideas. Submissions are up to 600 words. We will contact you to share that your submission has been selected for this volume throughout the month of April 2025.
Love is Louder Resources
Explore Toolkit #1
This toolkit is for the flourishing of transgender and non-binary siblings. Learn a 5-step process to access ways you can care for trans and non-binary folks well.
Logo Package
Download the “Love is Louder” logo package to use in your own Pride celebration materials!
Buy a Love is Louder Shirt
Purchasing a Love is Louder shirt supports congregations seeking to begin a discretionary fund focusing on the care of LGBTQIA+ Siblings. Purchase your shirt today!
Explore Toolkit #2
Facebook and X Banners
Celebrate Pride month by adding a Love is Louder banner to your Facebook or X page!
Advocacy 101 Webinars
Explore Pride OUT LOUD Worship Resources
Explore these Worship Resources curated for Pride Worship and LGBTQIA+ Inclusive Worship!
Download this free resource, here.
Gospel of Love Reflections
At the Genesis of our faith, God creates us in the image of the divine and through Jesus’ wisdom we are reminded of our connection to each other and the Gospel of Love.
To “love God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” – Luke 10:27, NRSV
Journey with our Gospel of Love Reflections:
Statements
Today, tomorrow, and always the fluidity of our expression and experiences as trans and non-binary siblings will live on infinitely. Language cannot contain or cease the Spirit. Queer individuals and the diversity spectrum of our humanity has always existed and will no matter what policies attempt to do. From our faith, I know, Trans and non-binary siblings are made in the image of God – period.
Rachael Ward, they/them, Minister and Team Lead for Gender & Sexuality Justice Ministeries
Read more from this offering & receive helpful care practices in this moment, here.
Questions?
For questions, please contact Rachael Ward, Team Lead & Minister for Gender & Sexuality Justice Ministries, at wardr@ucc.org or (216) 736–3217.