Prayer
Sent by ash
we join Love in the desert,
disoriented, dizzy. we thirst
as we wander rending
Prayer in a Time of Chaos
I can’t anymore. Sometimes urgently, sometimes softly but persistently, several times a day these words echo in my brain. They seem like an interruption and…
When You Don’t Want to Look Back (and the Examen that meets you there)
I wake up at 4:20 a.m. Unable to get back to sleep, I brush my teeth, make a cup of coffee, and curl up in…
2 Prayers for this season
Emmanuel,The choirs sing peace on earth while the festive crowds feast and dump waste into bins. Meanwhile migrants are offeredthe opposite of welcome, The planet needs healing, Violence and conflict…
Lest we feast unto our own judgment
I sometimes joke that I want to start a cooking blog where, instead of telling the same formulaic stories about “my grandmother used to make…
There are no words
“There are no words,” she tells me. As she sits on the couch across from my chair, she nevertheless fishes for the box of tissues…
The signs of these times
You know how to judge the appearance of the sky,but you cannot judge the signs of the times.–Matthew 16:3 The smog is thick, the water…
Kent Monkman: Telling the truth through art
In the gospels, Jesus tells us to go into the world and spread the good news. This desire to convert non-Christians was distorted by popes…
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