Check out my latest post on From the Pews in the Back. It’s a reflection on this Sunday’s liturgical readings entitled, “The Burning Bush and The Patient Gardener.”
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February 22, 2010
A Thirsty Lent
My friends over at The Church Is Alive invited me to post as a guest blogger during their Lenten fundraiser campaign to raise $5000 to build a water well in Africa. Check out my post, “A Thirsty Lent“, and contribute to their fundraising effort if you are so inclined…
February 20, 2010
I Think God Moves in People
Sometime before midnight on New Years Eve I found myself nuzzled into the living room couch with another friend who studies theology in graduate school. Amid the dancing, yelling, and clamoring of glasses at the party that surrounded us, she spoke one of the most simple, profound things I had heard about God in a [...]
February 7, 2010
Wide White Margins, And A Few Words
On the days when I particularly overwhelmed–when I am convinced that any reform in my church will require at least 10 million perfect words, when I am sure that nothing I can think or say or write will ever make any difference, when I am tempted to think that the countless number of books in [...]
February 7, 2010
Here I Am! Send Me!
Check out “Here I Am! Send Me!,” my reflection on today’s Sunday liturgy readings at From the Pews in the Back: Young Women & Catholicism.
February 3, 2010
The Incarnation Next to Me
Emerging Women is currently posting entries about the incarnation, so I reworked an older piece for a contribution on their site entitled, “The Incarnation Next to Me.”
January 20, 2010
The God Who Was Not There–or Here, Today
“‘My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?’ gave way–here is the heart of the story–to ‘But into your hands I commend my spirit.’ Jesus handed himself over to the God who was not there. And found God there. In trusting the One who was not there, Jesus was resurrected…” –James Carroll, from Practicing [...]
January 17, 2010
The Incarnation After (and Before) Christmas
If you’re interested, visit the Emerging Women blog to read my entry, “The Incarnation After (and Before) Christmas“; it’s a reworking of my an entry I posted here last month.
January 13, 2010
Going Home
Check out my latest post at From the Pews in the Back: Young Women and Catholicism, entitled “Going Home.”
January 13, 2010
If Your Voice Is Shaking
“Speak your mind, even if your voice is shaking.” -Maggie Kuhn
I have memories of being a typically-gregarious little girl who was afraid to speak in class. Maybe it was more self-consciousness than fear. My young male peers taunted me on the basketball court at recess and inside the classroom walls–”like children do”–because I was [...]
