My mom and I were at the butterfly garden with my 8-month-old when the calls and texts started coming in. “Are you OK?” worried friends and family members...
Author - Emily Sanna
Who’s Black and Why? Edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Andrew S. Curran (Harvard University Press, 2022) Anti-Black racism has an origin. “Race” and the...
My favorite photo of my husband and son was taken in the early hazy days of parenthood when the latter was about 2 weeks old. It’s not a very good photo by...
Infinite Regress By Joshua Hren (Angelico Press, 2022) Novelist and poet Joshua Hren’s latest work, Infinite Regress, pits the existentialist’s nihilism...
Readings (Year C): Acts 1:1-11Psalms 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9Ephesians 1:17-23Luke 24:46-53 Reflection: Our bodies are holy I have a confession: I don’t always like...
Called: A Memoir By Mark Redmond (Onion River Press, 2021) I cannot think of a better example of someone truly living their life’s vocation than Mark Redmond...
In 2010 a series of deaths by suicide began in the interior Alaskan villages surrounding Tanana, a community of approximately 200 people, most of whom are...
“Free: spinach dip from Jewel. Bought last week and tried it but don’t like it.” The above post caught my eye as I was scrolling through Facebook one day. Who...
Readings Job 38:1, 8–11Psalm 107:23–26, 28–312 Corinthians 5:14–17Mark 4:35–41 Reflection: Caretaking and self-care When you’re pregnant, so much of the advice...
Birth of a Movement By Olga M. Segura (Orbis Books, 2021) Living out our faith should not always be comfortable. If we are truly following Christ, then we will...
