I was visiting missionary friends in Turkana, a remote, arid, and desolate region of Kenya, in the summer of 2001. My friends had asked me to help baptize 40...
Catholic Voices
First-person reflections on scriptural interpretation, theology, and Catholic social teaching.
During my last semester of graduate school, I asked Jesus for a sign of what to do next. I felt anxious not knowing where I was headed or who would be coming...
My vocation is to write. When I’m tempted to distraction or guilt over all the other work that needs doing in the church and the world, I must repeat this to...
Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.” (Gen. 12:1) Thus begins Abraham’s...
Dear white friends, family, and church family, We need to talk. About Charlottesville and what happened there. We need to talk about something uncomfortable...
When my husband and I decided to home-school our children, one major concern we had was about their socialization. I do not mean that we were worried about our...
For just about any modern industrial society, a 4.3 percent unemployment rate would be something to celebrate. That’s the level the United States hit in May, a...
Growing up, two inclinations molded the majority of my activities: a passion for interacting with the natural world and an interest in building things. As a...
I don’t know how old I was when I was first introduced to Henry David Thoreau’s admonition “to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life,” but it must have...
I remember the following from the life of 14-year-old me: A search for something larger and more meaningful than the place and time I occupied A voice that...
