This week I'm challenging us all to stop making life about being right and start making it about being loved and being loving.

I believe the real issues we face are all found in the nuclear core of the power of love activated inside us. But too often, we've let our culture devolve into division and fighting. I’m inspired by one of my favorite authors, Felicia Murrell, who writes:

“I think the broad sweeping generalizations on both sides are killing us all... As a society, we’ve made life about being right instead of being loved.”

We have all suffered from love deprivations—deficiencies of love that we’ve accommodated as normal. It leads to fighting, resentment, and a relentless need to prove a point.

But as Presiding Bishop Michael Curry says, this love thing is not owned or controlled by anyone: The source is God. No one votes it in or out.

I'm calling on you to join me in the relentless pursuit of love.

• Confront your deprivations and recognize where love has been withheld.

• Practice the Love's Creed to keep love on your daily to-do list.

• Be courageous and disrupt the awkwardness by saying the three most holy words: I love you.

Let’s turn this anxious ship around, folks! It's going to take all of us to change the world, one breath and one act of love at a time.

Are you ready to join me and make the U-turn: stopping the fight to be right and starting the work of being loved?

I'm diving deep into my life’s purpose today: Preach Love hotter than any religious flame. Live Love more outrageous than any political rage. Lift Love higher than the heavens and deeper than any hell.

This is a direct challenge to the noise in our world.

• Preach Love Hotter: Don't let rigid doctrines or religious passion overshadow the fierce, pure fire of love. We shouldn't be preaching hellfire; we should be preaching a love that burns with the flames of heaven's beauty. I walk you through the Lord's Prayer and my Love's Creed to help you keep love as the one true target.

• Live Love More Outrageous: When faith and political rage mix, the result pushes people away. I’m telling you: you can’t serve two masters. Stop letting political fury set your agenda. We are called to be outrageous lovers showing a radical love for our enemies, our neighbors, and those on the "other side." This love must be more extreme than any rage you see.

• Lift Love Higher and Deeper: Heaven and hell are not just things to worry about when you die; they are realities we live now. The key to eternal life is letting go of the selfish hell that is eating you alive. As I always say, where you're going is where you are. I believe there is no hell so deep that the love of God cannot reach it.

This isn't about signing a card; it’s about a life you choose to live. Give up what's choking you be it wealth, hate, or rage and come live love higher than the heavens and deeper than any hell.

Take this challenge: Today, risk saying the three most holy words to someone: I love you. It's a risk that will change you.

I'm Bishop Randy Dean, your No BS Bishop.

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Live It Now

I'm sharing the message I recently delivered live at Chain of Lakes Church in Blaine, MN. We need to talk about Love in a Time of Crisis.

Every one of us is either in a crisis, coming out of one, or heading into another. And the Church? We've lost our focus.

Jesus gave us just one commandment to define us: Love one another. But we've replaced that heavy lifting with political squabbles and the sickness of codependency—trying to fix, manage, and control others instead of simply loving.

I get personal this week, discussing my own journey as a spiritual refugee and what I learned from a childhood riddled with crisis.

This isn't just bumper-sticker love. It's a call to action. I break down how we can rescue love from silly sentiment, making it our safe place and a transcendent target above all the constant rage and existential dread in the world.

Join me for this powerful special edition and take ownership of Love's Creed. It's time to be known as the people who love like crazy.