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10 summer reads from our archives for the heat and these hard times

July 10, 2020

Here are 10 summer reads from the Messy Jesus Business archives that could fuel your fires, ignite your actions, inform your choices. These words could companion you in the summer heat and during these hard times.

PPrayer and Spirituality

Lent in a pandemic

March 13, 2020

I’ve been inside since Wednesday afternoon. It all started when a friend, who ministers in New York, texted…

EEquity and Justice

Missed connections and lonely souls

October 16, 2019

Once, while traveling home alone from a conference, I went to the airport early. I had some free…

EEquity and Justice

The sacred tension of solitude

February 8, 2019

My week alone is coming to an end. I’ve been in hermit mode, making a retreat in a…

EEquity and Justice

Franciscan Bookshelf: A Simplified Life: A Contemporary Hermit’s Experience of Solitude and Silence

January 29, 2015

By day, guest blogger K.P.—a good friend of Sister Julia’s—reads, writes, and has conversations about literature for a…