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What's Your Revolution?
Much ink has been spilled this year over "the Benedict Option," Rod Dreher's sweeping cultural assessment adjuring Christians to create and invest in life-giving physical communities and to dig down...
Scraped Knees and Broken Hearts
For many years I was the queen of diminish and dismiss. My friends lauded me for my ability to forgive and continue in relationships with people who had hurt me....
We Go in Many Directions and He Is With Us
Yesterday, I sat on my porch singing into my phone as a dear friend sat on her couch strumming her guitar and leading me in worship. She offered this missionary...
Pretend Our Way into Being Someone Else
With our modern eyes it can be so easy to see the story of Jacob and Esau and think it somehow pedestrian and almost silly in how easily Issac can...
Calling All the Sinners
If you ever have the privilege to wander around Rome, you will undoubtedly stumble across a Caravaggio. The city is littered with paintings by the Baroque master. His use of...
Sometimes I'm the Paralytic
I am often paralyzed by my sin. I am very good at hiding it with my busy-ness. I couldn’t possibly be paralyzed if I am working all these jobs and...
Beauty from Messes
Sarah was old and had always been barren so, according to the customs of the time, she told her husband to take her slave as a concubine, that he may...
Falling into the Storm
Why am I terrified, Lord? Because I don’t know the way from here to the ending. I don’t know what fills the pages of my life between the mess of...
Thomas the Martyr
Saint Thomas, whose feast day we celebrate today, is most often remembered for being a man who doubted. Today’s Gospel highlights “doubting Thomas" and his skepticism in seeing the risen...
Finding and Losing Life
So much of the Gospel today triggers childhood memories. The first time I heard the verse about not loving your father or mother more than God, I sobbed. Now, as...
Laughter and Pain
Today is my daughter's birthday, she is one, and those are words I never really believed I'd ever get to say. When I became Catholic in 2013 I made a...
Have Hope. God Will Do It.
Recently a friend of mine and I were having a conversation about hope. This friend is a witness to hope herself, and she frequently encourages and challenges other women to...
