Read More PPrayer and Spirituality Hope and heartache on this side of the graveMay 14, 2020 I understand that my death could come any day. My own life experiences have etched this understanding into…
EEquity and Justice In the Christian journey’s four seasons, “All Shall be Well”September 19, 2019 For a year of my life, I lived in Northern California, where the seasons felt all out of…
CCommunity Building Learning to abide in careFebruary 27, 2019 What does it mean to be a community of care? How can we deepen in our care for one another in a world so caught up in efficiency and the self-protection of individualism?
EEquity and Justice Beyond lonely scrollingJanuary 16, 2019 Sitting alone in a living room on a dark winter night, I am staring at a screen once…
PPrayer and Spirituality Lent’s inevitable disappointment and the constant turn to GodMarch 21, 2018 Praying with Fr. James’ Martin SJ’s Examen app recently, I heard the words, “Lent is drawing to a…
EEquity and Justice The wonderful inconvenience of loveFebruary 14, 2017 Happy Valentine’s Day!! I love this day so much because this is a day when we can celebrate…
PPeacemaking From farm to city and back again: Listening and loving on the marginsNovember 18, 2016 Decades ago, as a child growing up in the rolling hills of Northeast Iowa, I would daydream of…
EEquity and Justice Toddler Tantrums and the Kingdom of GodAugust 8, 2014 By Guest Blogger Nicole Wooldridge. It was one of those moments every parent dreads: my two-year-old had worked…
EEquity and Justice People watching and categoriesJune 25, 2014 I have a confession to make. I’ve noticed something about myself while I have been bopping around Chicago…
PPrayer and Spirituality seven days of salvationApril 8, 2012 strangers grip palms, bond at bus stops grins by glory, pilgrims unite onward, hosannas and hellos true buzz…