If you were to ask me to quote the entirety of the film "The Sound of Music" from memory, I...

My preschooler asks how many minutes remain in his quiet time for the fifth time today, and the baby woke...

Community matters. Community is often a word or idea that so easily gets brushed aside. It's easy to go about...

The leper in today’s Gospel (Mark 1:40-45) asks to be made clean, healed of his disease. It’s a request I...

“Good . . . good . . . busy . . . really busy . . . but good.” Those...

I sat on the hard, dark-stained pew and lowered the kneeler until it softly thudded on the carpeted floor. A...

When Jesus called the disciples it was so clear, wasn’t it? Come, He said, Come and follow Me. They saw...

I come from a long line of yellers. I remember my mother saying to my father, “You don’t have to...

I took a pregnancy test last week. It was negative. It was negative like all of the other negative tests...

A few years ago my beloved aunt was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. While our family earnestly hoped and prayed for...

Christ used a parish priest from Uganda to show me what it looks like to love my brothers and sisters....

As someone who is engaged in a likely lifelong battle with perfectionism, 1 John 4:18 tends to shake me up...

My turn was coming and I didn’t have an answer—at least not one that I felt comfortable sharing with the...

On a recent retreat I led, a woman approached me at the break looking for a little support. She slowly...

"Rise up in splendour, Jerusalem. Your light has come, the glory of the Lord shines upon you" (Isaiah 60:1). I...

"What are you looking for?" he asked me. We were sitting outside of the coffee shop on a breezy Sunday...

Our names tell a story from the moment they were written on a birth certificate. Some names have been passed...