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  • Anxiety at the Crossroads: Where We End and God Begins

    The couple sits next to one another on the two-seater couch in my office, not minding the imposed closeness, arms intertwined.  They have worked…

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  • Why contemplation is messy

    By Sister Julia Walsh

  • Hope the size of a hazelnut

    By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

  • Wade in the Water: On Floods and Finding My Footing

    By amynee

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  • Why contemplation is messy

    By Sister Julia Walsh

  • Hope the size of a hazelnut

    By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

  • Wade in the Water: On Floods and Finding My Footing

    By amynee

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  • Preserving Dangerous Memories 

    Maura Rocks

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  • Rules for a messy and holy creative practice 

    Cassidy Klein

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  • The invisible, embodied holiness of parenting

    Emily Cortina

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  • Yo Soy Una Guadalupana (I Am A Guadalupana)
    Posted by guest blogger, Sister Sarah Hennessey A Story of Marta “I’m nervous because I’m here illegally.” Marta held out her arm for a blood pressure check. The nurse in the free clinic and I quickly reassured her that everything was confidential and she had nothing to fear. Marta continued, “I’m nervous because I am illegal…

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