I like to say that the job that best prepared me for caretaking my small children was bartending in a busy club: Someone was always waving for my attention, I...
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It took nine months of attending services at her new parish before Sam, who is shy by nature and admits to avoiding events that could feel like a middle school...
During the late spring of this unforgettable year, the United States became embroiled in a debate over how to respond to the novel coronavirus pandemic...
In the spring of 2006, I made a decision to try a new Catholic church. As the mother of an 8-year-old with severe autism, I had already experienced my fair...
Read The Least of These By Carla Swafford Works (Eerdmans, 2020) “The apostle Paul does not have a reputation for caring about ‘the least of these,’ ”...
But how do you get through the pain?” Although tears fill her eyes, the woman’s voice is adamant as she directs this question to the leader of the bereavement...
What does it mean to be in exile? The Christian tradition treats the idea of exile as a spiritual phenomenon: being sundered from our pristine beginnings, cast...
Will there be enough? This question invaded our thoughts and made a bid for our souls in the early weeks of the pandemic this year. Fear of insufficiency made...
In 2001 I celebrated my first Mass as pastor of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Kingston, Jamaica. The church was filled with music, fellowship, and...
Several years ago, my brother and I found ourselves in the throes of that middle-aged rite of passage—the clearing out of our parents’ house—not long after...
