When I was a young adult, I didn’t think I was a feminist. This was not because I didn’t want the same opportunities men had. At the evangelical ranch, camp...
Author - Rebecca Bratten Weiss
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Directed by Rian Johnson (Netflix, 2022) The years between 1920 and 1940 were an era of extreme income inequality, excessive...
As a child, sometimes I woke in the morning to a thumping sound from the living room, as though someone was hitting the floor with a wooden mallet. That sound...
Home schooling, once a niche option for countercultural groups, has become more mainstream. Data from the Census Bureau indicate that between 1999 and 2012 the...
Eleutheria By Allegra Hyde (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2022) Allegra Hyde’s debut novel, Eleutheria, grapples with big questions about human hope and...
Every summer, my father planted huge gardens that yielded the food our family lived on for much of the year. And every summer my sister and I were pressed into...
Readings (Year C): Acts 14:21-27Psalm 145:8-9, 10-11, 12-13Revelation 21:1-5aJohn 13:34 Reflection: “As I have loved you, so you also should love one another.”...
In March 2021 FutureChurch hosted a talk on women in Catholic media, hosted by Heidi Schlumpf, executive editor of the National Catholic Reporter. Schlumpf...
Because my father died early in the pandemic, while much of the world was in lockdown, his funeral was a virtual event. The only in-person attendees were...
When a young woman in an Alabama parish heard that the Jesuits of St. Louis were organizing a solidarity stand vigil, she was inspired to arrange something...
