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Fear's Kryptonite
During a serious health crisis, I reached a moment of—I’m ashamed to say—full on, wild-eyed hysteria. I called my best friend and began to unleash a tsunami of panic and...
Believe in the Blessing
I was young, naïve, a little too overconfident in my virtue. One night, I’m ashamed to admit, I was tempted to have a one-night stand. This was wildly out of...
The Serious Work of Goodness
For the nearly 3000 people who died and the 6000 who were injured on September 11, 2001, I remember you. I remember that you woke up that morning twenty years...
Strengthened by That Food
My brother, a priest, was first appointed to a parish with a huge elementary school. One of his favorite duties there was teaching the children about the Eucharist and in...
Take a Look Behind You
A classic cartoon from my youth depicts the Red Sea story—and one moment is highlighted. Moses has done the work of parting the sea, and the Israelites are mostly through...
Ridiculous Greatness of Heart
The following prayer, it is said, was found near the body of a dead child in the Ravensbrück concentration camp during World War II: O Lord, remember not only men...
Dozens Upon Dozens of Brothers
When my younger brother entered seminary, he was thirty-three and I was thirty-nine. As beautiful as his vocation was and as big a blessing as it was to my family,...
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...
