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Sister Mumbi Kigutha: Transforming Pain through Reconciliation

January 21, 2021

"Defining reconciliation for me is pretty simple, it's restoring right relationships," Sister Mumbi explains. But true restorative justice requires four pillars: peace, mercy, justice and truth.

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Seeing Jesus in the poor and the bread

May 5, 2020

In the pilot episode, Sister Julia introduces the podcast and offers a contemplative moment related to Adoration. She also speaks with guest Sister Sarah Hennessy about vocation, the mystery of the Eucharist and the charism of their community--Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration.

EEquity and Justice

The familiar, the new and discernment for daily living

August 30, 2019

I’ve been wondering: is anything ever totally new? Some say that every seven years we have new bodies…

EEquity and Justice

The myth of the self-made person and the true demand of discipleship

September 28, 2018

A week ago, I sat among a circle of women at the local county jail. The fluorescent lights…

PPrayer and Spirituality

Praying onward, with more longing

August 2, 2018

Yesterday, some of my elder FSPA sisters and our prayer partners rang in the celebration of 140 years…

DDiscernment

Holiness is messy: “Gaudete et Exsultate” highlights

April 10, 2018

On Sunday, I stood in a Church parking lot with about a dozen teenagers preparing for confirmation. I…

DDiscernment

More than boy-crazy

February 13, 2015

“How can you be a nun? You’re the most boy-crazy girl I know!” My good friend first jokingly…

AArts and Activism

A great big exciting God question

August 1, 2013

A vivid memory has been speaking to me all summer: a sunny spring day, as the fourth period…

DDiscernment

Big picture love

July 18, 2013

Union with God: we pray for it, long for it, work for it. But, are we prepared for what…

DDiscernment

Discernment via Reality TV

July 25, 2012

Last Sunday night I joined about nine million other Americans in a guilty pleasure past time—the season finale of…