If this is your first time visiting Messy Jesus Business, welcome to the mess!
No matter who you are or what is going on in your life, we invite you into podcast discussions and blog reflections about radical, Christian discipleship. In each offering, we explore the messiness of spirituality and faith.
Our founder and host, Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration Julia Walsh, features podcast guests and blog contributors who share their experiences of living the Gospel today.
Behind the Messy Jesus Business scenes, Sister Julia is a prolific Christian writer and speaker whose perspective on modern Christian living has been widely published and featured internationally across all modes of media.
Here is a sampling of our offerings, all are blog posts unless otherwise identified.
For Times of Struggle
For Spiritual Seekers
For anyone “Wondering should I do with my life?”
- Dreaming and discernment
- How spiritual direction helps with discernment
- Floating with the currents of Christ
For Activists
- Preserving dangerous memories
- Michael Poffenberger: Contemplation and Transformation (podcast)
- Justice and the freedom to move
For Artists
- Kent Monkman: Telling the truth through art
- Living images of the Sacred Heart
- When writing goes wrong: why our obsession with creative
Most Popular
- Whitewashed Mary and white supremacy
- How to be hot for God
- Death comes for us all, Oroku Saki
- Just sandals and a walking stick
- Living the stigmata today
- It’s not our job to change people
- Messy Jesus Business podcast celebrates 50 episodes (podcast)
- Kristina Ortega: inclusion and Catholic education (podcast)
- Father Greg Boyle: staying with the God of love (podcast)
Prayer
- Prayers for times like these
- Prayer is listening to my heart’s longing
- Prayer of mixed emotions after the conviction of Derek Chauvin
Poetry
Lent
- Lenten contemplation: breath and bread
- Returning to my body and my God, all Lent long
- When Lent gives you lemons, make a curd
Easter
- Easter contemplation 2024
- Resurrection energy: when a friend and a pope die
- King’s mountaintop is an Easter invitation for everyone
Advent
- Darkness and light in Advent (podcast)
- An Advent reflection on pigeons
- Advent readiness and mutual hospitality
Christmas
Ordinary Time
Franciscan Life
- The messiness of Franciscan sisterhood (podcast)
- Letter to Lady Clare from an imperfect Franciscan sister
- The wild love of St. Francis
- God make us poor and nonviolent like St. Francis
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