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An altar for a Longest Night/Blue Christmas ritual Birch co-organized with their home congregation. The altar is a small round table with a blue cloth and white candles, in a circle of chairs. On the back wall is a portrait of one of the congregation's early ministers, Mary Safford.

B. Cue, 2019

Birch at the worship ceremony concluding their CPE unit. They are behind a pulpit in a brick-walled chapel lit from above by a skylight. They are wearing a bright dress. Their CPE educator sits to their left.

D. Cue, 2024

Birch with the five members of their internship committee, standing in a well-lit hall of their internship church. Behind them is a bookshelf of the church's library, and the rest of the hall.

J. Over, 2025

Birch at a carved wood pulpit in a wood-paneled sanctuary. They are gesturing with their right hand while making eye-contact with the audience. They are wearing a black cardingan and a dress with a bright floral pattern.

C. Kreek, 2025

Birch in the fellowship hall of their internship site during coffee hour. They are smiling and talking animatedly with a member of the congregation. They are wearing a black cardingan and a dress with a bright floral pattern, and holding a black coffee mug which says SAFE SPACE in rainbow letters.

C. Kreek, 2025

Birch co-leading a multiplatform ritual for their fellow students during their seminary's Intensives Week. They are wearing a bright dress with Peanuts characters on it, with a black leather belt around their waist. They are standing in front of an altar with a black glitterly cloth, which has a stack of purple books on it. To Birch's right, there is a person just out of view picking up some grains of wheat from a silver chalice in the site-author's hand. There is a projector screen behind them casting the Zoom call of the multiplatform ritual. To Birch's left, there is a person in a yellow shirt and green pants with their back to the camera, placing grains of wheat into a bowl of dirt in Birch's left hand, which is out of view. Birch looks down and to their left.

M. McKenzie-Creech, 2025

Birch in a committee meeting. They are wearing a pink, purple, and blue tie-dyed shirt, black skirt, and black sandles. They are looking down at the laptop sitting on their lap.

S. Murray, 2025

Birch in a committee meeting. They are sitting with committee members in a circle. They are wearing a pink, purple, and blue tie-dyed shirt, black skirt, and black sandles. Their laptop is sitting on their lap. They are talking in the direction of someone outside the frame of the photo.

S. Murray, 2025

Birch leading a ritual at their internship site's annual women's retreat. They are wearing a short-sleeved teal velvet top, and a floral teal skirt. They are in a wood-paneled sanctuary in front of rows purple upholstered chairs. At their feet is a magenta light cast by a small window in the sanctuary's ceiling which marks equinoxes.

A. Pichar, 2025

Birch lighting a chalice for a ritual at their internship site's annual women's retreat. They are wearing a short-sleeved teal velvet top, and a floral teal skirt. They are in a wood-paneled sanctuary in front of rows purple upholstered chairs. The chalice in front of them is a blue ceramic bowl with an orange alcohol-based flame leaping out of it. The chalice sits on a wooden stand 2 to 3 feet tall, with chalice-shapes cut out of it.

C. Kreek, 2025

Birch singing with four song-leaders at their internship site's annual women's retreat. Birch is wearing a short-sleeved teal velvet top, and a floral teal skirt. They are in well-lit fellowship hall with plain walls and a metal magnet-board.

C. Kreek, 2025

An altar for a ritual to mark moving from one stage of life into another, which Birch led at their internship site's . Is covered with mementos depicting stages of life participants are leaving behind, and bright collages that represent the stages they are moving in to.

B. Cue, 2025

Birch between a bride and groom at a wedding ceremony. The three of them are on the steps of a historic mansion. The bride is wearing a white lace dress. Birch stands at a microphone-stand and is wearing a long-sleeved black dress and holding a black binder. The groom is in a sage-green suit. He is holding the bride's hands in his, smiling and looking down at the rings they have just exchanged.

N. Mishchenkov, 2025

Birch between a bride and groom at a wedding ceremony. The three of them are on the steps of a historic mansion. The bride is wearing a white lace dress. Birch stands at a microphone-stand and is wearing a long-sleeved black dress and holding a black binder. The groom is in a sage-green suit. The three of them look over the crowd of wedding-guests in the foreground of the photo. Birch looks out to them, toward the camera. The bride and groom look out in another direction, smiling at the guests.

N. Mishchenkov, 2025

A photo of Birch from behind at their internship site's annual auction, which was hat-themed in 2025. Birch is in pointy, broad-brimmed hat covered with patchwork, and is wearing a sweater vest with a patchwork pattern.

K. Capuano, 2025

Birch leading a Transgender Day of Remembrance observance on a Sunday afternoon, on the sidewalk outside of First Universalist Church of Denver. Birch is on the left side of a circle of people, wearing brown boots and a teal knit duster. They are speaking into a microphone, and looking to the far end of the circle of people. There are people of many ages and genders in the circle.

J. Over, 2025

Birch leading a Transgender Day of Remembrance observance on a Sunday afternoon, on the sidewalk outside of First Universalist Church of Denver. Birch is on the left side of a circle of people in front of a feather-banner that says 'We Remember.' Birch is wearin a teal knit duster. They are holding a tablet and microphone, and looking to the far end of the circle of people. Next to them is stool with ritual materials: a basket of bright-colored stones, a basket of earth-colored stones, and kleenex. There are people of many ages and genders in the circle.

J. Over, 2025

Birch singing in worship. They are in a well-lit wood-paneled sanctuary. Birch is wearing a red turtleneck and a black skirt. Behind them, members of the choir and the senior minister are holding roses. There is a basket of roses at their feet. The worship associate is standing next to them

S. Murray, 2025

Birch offering a pastoral prayer in worship, standing at a carved wooden pulpit. Birch is wearing a red turtleneck and a black skirt. A member of the choir is sitting in a purple chair behind them.

J. Over, 2025