Monday, December 15, 2025 Happy Monday, my friends! I apologize that this present season has caused me to be unable to write and publish Monday Moments as regularly as in the past, but I’m happy to be able to write something for you today. At Blue Ocean Faith Columbus, the church I pastor, we’re reading Living Buddha, Living Christ  by the Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hahn. As the title implies, Nhat Hahn writes about the similarities and differences between Buddhism and Christianity which...

Sunday, December 7, 2025 - Second Sunday of Advent The Rev. Dr. Ben Huelskamp (he/they) Executive Director, LOVEboldly Queer Christian   Love never ends. (1 Corinthians 13:8)   Assuming you haven’t skipped ahead—not calling you out, I’d do the same thing—you’re reading this devotion for the first time on December 7, 2025, almost one year after I wrote it on December 4, 2024. I imagine at least some of the bad things I was fearing have come true, but hopefully not all of them. Wherever and...

Tuesday, December 2, 2025 Dear Friends, It’s Giving Tuesday, and I’m writing to you first thing this morning because this matters to me more than I can fully express. I’ve recorded a video for you. In it, I talk about what LOVEboldly means to me—not just as Executive Director, but as a Queer person of faith who grew up in the church, who knows what it’s like to wonder if God could really love someone like me. And this is my dream job. This work—creating spaces where LGBTQIA+ Christians don’t...