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Claiming a Fast in Pandemic Time: How We Carry What We Miss
Can this ongoing pandemic be recast as a sort of fast? As we sacrifice and remain apart in continuing, real ways, impatient for a return to "normal," what can we learn from this time?
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Goodbye Vanessa, Hello Awe
Instead of arriving at humility via the well-trodden paths of failure or shame, awe offers us humility through the force of wonder.
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Listening for Our Call on the Threshold - An Interview with Karen Hering
For churches and people of faith, now is the time to connect with our deepest callings and see how we want to move forward "prayerfully, joyfully, and lovingly participating in creation."
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How to Have an Enemy
"Choosing Black liberation is to choose a different life, one that collects, little by little, habits, economics, community, and politics that are for the mutual thriving of our world."
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Essential Workers, Insufficient Funds
Those working in retail, the food industry, childcare, and eldercare are essential workers and deserve a living wage for the essential service and hard work they provide.
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Choose Your Poison: An Ecumenist’s Reflection on Catholic Fumblings Over...
“I mean, I gotta say, this is making Anabaptism look pretty darn good,” wrote one Mennonite Facebook friend.
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Book Notes, April 2022
Learn about new books by Collegeville Institute authors Jessica Hooten Wilson, Peter A. Huff, and Darrell Jodock.
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Where Faith and Trauma Recovery Meet
People in ministry need to go "into the pit" of their own trauma in order to create a safe space and sit in uncomfortable spaces with others processing trauma.
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Befriending Grief
Many people are experiencing grief as the US passes the milestone of 1 million deaths from Covid. What if we change our approach and realize grief is necessary in times like this?
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Afflicting the Comfortable: The White Church’s Call to Reject White Supremacy
On this 4th of July holiday, and every day, the White Christian Church needs to commit to speaking loudly against white supremacy and working, institutionally, to replace all elected officials who do...
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The Wisdom of They
If we identify our relationships even more closely with those of the Trinity, perhaps all our relationships can be rooted in collaboration and love and respect?
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Restoring Housing Hope
Dorothy Wells draws attention to the gap between wages and housing costs that is making it impossible for workers to live in the communities they serve.
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Evening Prayer in Time of Covid
"It is hard to let go on the eve of winter, / but we start the prayers anyway, / praise and entreaty, thanks and creed."
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On Mute
Are you there? God? I clicked on the link and now all I need is for you to turn your microphone and camera on. Please? Connect?
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Psalm 17: A Prayer for Asian Americans
"I had seen blatantly hateful acts committed against Asian Americans all my life, but never so many, so fast, and so creative with their hatred."
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The Liberating Grace of Ashes
On Ash Wednesday, Nabuule Vivian recounts her early experiences of the day as a hospital chaplain intern, and an experience that changed her perception of the ministry.
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How Do I Live Now?
Lyndsey Medford works to come to terms with her own chronic illness and what purpose means when faced with circumstances beyond our control.
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Senator Dave Durenberger: Very Human Lessons from a Public Life
Senator Dave Durenberger, who grew up on the campus of Saint John's University, may be remembered for his public censure, but should also be praised for what he learned from the experience.
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Processing Our National Grief
On this Memorial Day, Ellen Spero considers how the Vietnam War Memorial provides an example of the ongoing process of grief in community that might also guide us in the wake of Covid-19.
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Caterpillar or Butterfly?
Joe was on a respirator / for three months. // Who would’ve believed / he’d be on a cruise now, / sight-seeing in the Bahamas.
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