“As the nation celebrates the recent Supreme Court ruling granting the freedom to marry in all fifty states, ReconcilingWorks yearns for a time when the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) will find a way to speak clearly, without reservation or caveat, about the dignity and value of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) lives as they are lived out in relationship and in family. We covet the day when the Church embraces in holiness and into wholeness people of all sexual orientations and gender identities and expressions by boldly naming them as Beloved. We look forward to a world without outcasts, when all are strengthened for authentic, visible, faithful lives.”