Garrett Stier is a musician, artist, and gardener based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

A poem featured in The Lighter Weight of Being.

Nicole Gabriella Scipione is an award-winning actor, writer, and filmmaker.

"Surrender in Empire," a litany, is a communal prayer for the moments when those who hold power and the structures they dominate fail us. It is a call to make Love our resistance.

Mike Roe is a Los Angeles writer working across screenwriting, journalism, and live comedy, with a focus on mixed-race and Native Hawaiian identity, faith interacting with doubt, and the people mainstream storytelling overlooks.

Michelle Lum is a Southern California-based artist, musician, and minister.

Gabrielle Susa Grubbs is a songwriter and composer based in Los Angeles, California.

Filipe Amado is a creative director, documentary filmmaker, and theologian whose work explores how artistic expression bridges cultural and spiritual conversations in contemporary society.

Pamela Alderman is a West Michigan artist, writer, speaker, and the founder and executive director of Healing in Arts.

What if there is a lighter way of being in the world — more whole, more connected, more alive to what is possible?