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Dear Outlook readers,

Today, I pray that you are able to see the Spirit at work all around you — in community, in creation, in the work of the church. Know that God goes with you into all of the unknowns of this time and Christ's grace covers you.

In Christ,

Rose Schrott Taylor
Outlook interim associate editor

Editors' picks

Let’s talk about sex by Maggie Alsup

Helping parents to co-build their children’s faith by Katherine Peiper

Our place in queer church history by Erin Angeli

Stated Clerk calls on Presbyterians to pray for those impacted by recent hurricanes by PNS

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Jeremy Wilhelmi reflects on encouraging his children to accept all forms of gender and sexuality. Sometimes, this means letting them experience the world without commentary, he writes.

“Were Adam and Eve in love?”
Elana Keppel Levy ponders intimacy and the vulnerability that comes with it.

On Yom Kippur, Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg explains why repentance is so important
Society often expects victims of harm to forgive their perpetrators, regardless of whether they've cleaned up their act, says Ruttenberg. Judaism offers another way. — RNS

IRL: Finding Our Real Selves in a Digital World
Madelyn Peppard reviews Chris Stedman's new book.

How should presbyteries support new worshipping communities?
Union Presbyterian Seminary Doctor of Ministry student David Bonnema explores best practices for planting and funding new worshipping communities.

The hidden interfaith networks key to the migrant justice movement
They do it with grace and grit, they work across political and religious differences, and they have been doing it for decades. — RNS