Sophfronia Scott Hope on any Given Day by Sophfronia Scott Twenty children lost their lives at a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school in 2012. As the country moved on to mourn other mass shootings, survivors were left with…
Uncategorized A Side Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic? Reading Got a Lot Harder https://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Side-Effect-of-the-Covid-19/248568
Brian McLaren God Was in the Wind by Brian McLaren https://brianmclaren.net/god-was-in-the-wind-a-poemwalking-meditation/
Barbara Brown Taylor Existential Dizziness Some are questioning whether the churches they grew up in have anything to offer them as they make their ways in a culture of many cultures with many views of…
Frederick Buechner Observance A religious observance can be a wedding, a christening, a Memorial Day service, a bar mitzvah, or anything like that you might be apt to think of. There are lots…
Uncategorized COVID-19 Prayer Calendars from Dominique Dubois Gilliard https://dominiquegilliard.com/2020/03/22/covid-19-prayer-calendars/
Uncategorized Reflections on Challenging Times by Doug Lyman From my experiences as a Benedictine monk for 20 years, as well as what I’ve learned from being a money manager, I’d like to offer some words…
Father James Martin Faith in the time of Coronavirus by Father James Martin The coronavirus pandemic is confusing and frightening for hundreds of millions of people. That is not surprising. Many around the world are sick and many others have died.…
Patricia Raybon God’s Your Guardian by Patricia Raybon https://www.patriciaraybon.com/gods-your-guardian/
Uncategorized Social Distancing: This is Not a Snow Day https://medium.com/@ariadnelabs/social-distancing-this-is-not-a-snow-day-ac21d7fa78b4
Father James Martin This Lent, don’t be a jerk by Father James Martin Instead of giving something up how about doing something positive? https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/03/09/lent-dont-be-jerk
Kaitlin Curtice, Sojourners We Can Do Hard Things and Survive, Together by Kaitlin Curtice https://sojo.net/articles/we-can-do-hard-things-and-survive-together
Brian McLaren God’s Beautiful Balanced Garden A meditation from Brian McLaren https://www.trcnyc.org/bsag-06-07/
Frederick Buechner Compassion by Frederick Buechner Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it's like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and…
Adam Hamilton Give – Generosity and Joy by Adam Hamilton https://www.adamhamilton.com/blog/give-generosity-and-joy#.XknEs2hKhPY
Father James Martin Forgiveness is a gift for your transgressors (and yourself) by Father James Martin https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/02/10/forgiveness-gift-your-transgressors-and-yourself
Kaitlin Curtice Let’s Acknowledge Our Holiday Tensions by Kaitlin Curtice https://kaitlincurtice.com/2019/12/01/lets-acknowledge-our-holiday-tensions/
Henri Nouwen Henri Nouwen on celebrating the holidays — and every day Excerpted from “Following Jesus: Finding Our Way Home in An Age of Anxiety,” drawn from talks given by the Catholic priest and theologian while he was teaching at Harvard Divinity…
Barbara Brown Taylor When I take a breath "When I take a breath, God's Holy Spirit enters me. When a cricket speaks to me, I talk back. Like everything else on earth, I am an embodied soul, who…
Philip Yancey Body Mindfulness InterVarsity Press has released a new, revised version of Philip Yancey's writings with Dr. Paul Brand, Fearfully and Wonderfully: The Marvel of Bearing God’s Image.
Father James Martin How to Pray with Nature What’s your experience of praying with nature? There is the feeling of awe that you get when you see the vastness of the ocean, the limitless number of stars, or…