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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

    I was a few hours from home, towards the end of an eight-hour drive from visiting family in Nebraska. It was dark and my…

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  • Kristina Ortega: Inclusion and Catholic Education

    By Sister Julia Walsh

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  • Whitewashed Mary and White Supremacy

    By Annemarie Barrett

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  • Kristina Ortega: Inclusion and Catholic Education

    Podcast: Play in new window | Download Episode 63 of Messy Jesus Business podcast, with Sister Julia Walsh. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe:  Stitcher | Email | RSS | More “Prayer…

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  • The jail we are all in

    By Sister Julia Walsh

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  • Scapegoating Eve

    By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

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  • Sister Christa Parra: Accompanying At the Border

    By Colin Wambsgans

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  • Dear Aemiliana, Dear Sarah

    By Sister Sarah Hennessey, FSPA

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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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  • Finding Christ in Every Corner of the Cosmos
    The last time I wrote for Messy Jesus Business, I discussed one of my favorite topics –– the Holy Grail. I want to return to that subject, because I think it is such a fruitful picture. There is a vessel that caught the blood and water which poured from the side of Christ. But what…
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  • Sister Christa Parra: Accompanying At the Border
    Podcast: Play in new window | Download Episode 62 of Messy Jesus Business podcast, with Sister Julia Walsh. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe:  Stitcher | Email | RSS | More “Whoever is in front of us we…
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  • Father Dan Horan: The Beautiful Mess of Personhood
    In this episode of Messy Jesus Business podcast, Sister Julia Walsh talks with Father Dan Horan about how he came to discover his vocation as a Franciscan, and they consider…
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  • The mortals return, as dust and ash.
    As dust, as mortals, we move closer to our graves each day. Lent: this season summons us to deeper holiness with an airy invitation: a breeze blending the chaos 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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