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Who's in Your Flock?
Stanley Rother grew up in Oklahoma, a hearty farm kid who knew the value of hard, manual labor. He wanted to become a priest. Seminary, where most of his classes...
Learning to Love My Bum
My whole life I have struggled to accept and love my body. It has been a source of deep pain since I was a little girl and grew out of...
Then Get in the Boat
This past election was one of the ugliest of my adult life. It seems no one was sincerely interested in debate, only insults and lots of talking over one another....
Calling the Ordinary
When I was young, I was terribly insecure, especially when it came to my first real jobs. I would shuffle into interviews with my eyes on the floor and say...
Leaping Fishes and the Holy Hand of God
I was getting divorced, not even a year after I’d married, and I felt destroyed. So I went away a while to the ocean to rest and pray and try...
That Gift of Friendship
In my thirties, I was engaged briefly to a man who, as it turns out, had a very serious drinking problem that he hadn’t been entirely honest about—how severe it...
His Sweetness in Loneliness
I’ve been working on a book about holy women and virtue, Love Like A Saint, and it’s been a privilege getting to know some of the remarkable women of the...
Keeping Sorrow Company
*We share a sensitive story of domestic abuse ending tragically in today's reflection.* Over the summer I had the privilege of getting to know Joanne, a professional dog-handler, and to...
More Often in Whispers than Tempests
August 9th never passes without remembering my brother-in-law. He was killed on this day ten years ago in a small airplane crash in Alaska. It was a crash that my...
Do I See What I See?
It was the first real Multiple Sclerosis symptom that emerged: I went blind in one eye. But it wasn’t an immediate sort of thing—total, instant blindness. It was much more...
From Little Tyrant to Little Lamb
In today's First Reading, Old Testament image of the Israeli prophets of Baal hopping around and slashing themselves until they were covered in blood is so ridiculous it’s laughable. But,...
