Funding the Revolution
There is so much I could write about this incredibly full week in America. To focus, I have been praying about “what is mine to do” (an idea I first heard while working with Fr. Richard Rohr and the Center for Action and Contemplation). During one of my morning walks,...
Quarantine: Scarlet Fever, Leprosy, and COVID-19
I had a video conversation with an elder friend this week. As she entered her second month of sheltering in place, she looked back on time spent in quarantine as a child with scarlet fever. One memory that caught my attention was how the postal carrier was willing to...
Embracing an Eastertide Attitude for a Fearful World
Christ is risen! Yesterday was Easter—but Easter is not over. While our culture tends toward the belief that a holiday marks the end or conclusion of a celebration, the church does not. There are a dozen days of Christmastide and a full fifty days of Eastertide. This...
Dying Alongside Us
It’s Holy Week: the week leading up to Easter. This is one of the two most important weeks in the Christian Year (the other is the celebration of Christmas). In this week, we remember Jesus’ final days of life as a human being: his last supper with his disciples, then...
I Don’t Want You to Leave
A few days ago, on my morning walk, I passed a very poignant scene. A young boy, probably five or six years old, stood on his tiptoes, leaning into the passenger window of a red sports car. Clutching a stuffed toy, he cried out, over and over again, “I don’t want you...
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