The most obvious and important realities are often those that are most difficult to see and talk about. ~David Foster Wallace It’s graduation season: a time for decorated mortarboards and ill-fitting gowns, transitions, bittersweetness at remembering what has passed and looking ahead at what’s to come, celebration for accomplishments and …
No matter how difficult this is going to be to change, we are going to have to change it. ~Sandra Steingraber Sandra Steingraber is a scientist, poet, and environmental activist. She was also arrested on March 18 for the act of civil disobedience for blocking machinery from fracking, then refusing …
I just finished a series of retreats on the incorporating the values of St. Francis of Assisi into our own lives. Francis, born of the upper class in the 1200s of Italy, chose to be among the lepers. Lepers lived, quite literally, among the filth of society; they were exiled, abused, …
My dearest Sons and Daughters, What is this you have been practicing? Have you forgotten why you are here? Many of you …
How deep the Father’s love for us, How vast beyond all measure The cross has done so much for us. It has …
I’ve always liked change, even been drawn to risk. Then I had my daughter. And suddenly I’m aware of my mortality, of …
I’m not usually one to review books that I haven’t read in their entirety. Especially when they’ve been sent to me by …
I didn’t think it would happen that quickly. I was hopeful as I took the first test – but I knew it …
It’s not Psalm 23 to most of us; it’s The 23rd Psalm. How many verses and stories have the word “the”: The …
We go tomorrow for what we hope will be our final appointment in this leg of our journey. Looking back – the …
Last week was a rough one in news land. On the campus where I work, a student brought a gun into a …
It never fails … when I am going through tough times, I always break down in worship. I don’t know what it …