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  • How to be holy AND messy
    To contemplate the sacredness of messiness, start with the natural world. Step into the forest and study the rotting logs. Examine the erosion. Notice the tiny and the grand, how transformation and evolution have designed the landscapes, and the simple and small. See the surrender of one creature to another, the wildness of complete metamorphosis…
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  • “Good Inside”: A restorative Christian approach to parenting and beyond

    By Emily Cortina

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  • Whitewashed Mary and White Supremacy

    By Annemarie Barrett

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  • Death comes for us all, Oroku Saki

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  • Scapegoating Eve

    I’ve been thinking about misogyny and the church even more than usual. A week ago, an ICE agent shot and murdered a woman named…

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  • Father Greg Boyle: Staying with the God of Love

    By Sister Julia Walsh

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  • Manna in this Desert Time

    By Emily Cortina

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  • Messy Jesus Business Podcast Celebrates 50 Episodes

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  • Just sandals and a walking stick

    By Sister Julia Walsh

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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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  • Death comes for us all, Oroku Saki
    “Death comes for us all, Oroku Saki, but something much worse comes for you … for when you die, it will be without honor.” ~ Master Splinter, to the Shredder, in “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie” (1990). At the climax of one of my favorite films, the 1990 cinematic masterpiece “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,”…
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  • How to be Hot for God
    Being Christian is not for sissies, I have heard some say. We must be bold, courageous and purposely enter into experiences of encounter that might make the average person squirm….
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  • Messy Jesus Business Podcast Celebrates 50 Episodes
    Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Spotify | Email | RSS Episode 1, Season 6 of Messy Jesus Business podcast, with Sister Julia Walsh. “When you are in a…
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  • Carmen Acevedo Butcher: Healed by Translation
    Podcast: Play in new window | Download Episode 53 of Messy Jesus Business podcast, with Sister Julia Walsh. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe:  Stitcher | Email | RSS | More IN THIS EPISODE: In this episode of…
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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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