Cody J. Sanders is associate professor of congregational and community care leadership at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. When you think about what...
In the Pews
Growing up with a Mexican Catholic mother and a Navajo father, Teresa Rojo Tsosie says she always felt her Catholic faith and native traditions were...
Years ago, I stood with my husband Bruce in our parish church for the Easter Vigil. People around me were singing, but I was mute, an ache in my throat. We had...
In the 120-year-old May chapel at Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago, on a Sunday afternoon in November, I sit in a pew and jot down facts about death: Your hair and...
If a tree falls in a forest and there is no one around to hear it, does it still make noise? If a person lifts their praises and petitions to God without...
One of the greatest influences in my life has been Catholic education. In my Catholic parochial grade school, I first learned what it meant to be a follower of...
Interestingly, but perhaps not surprisingly, only 42 percent of the population surveyed in a Pew Research Center poll responded that being part of a Catholic...
When I was in divinity school, all students were required to take a class titled “Negotiating Ministerial Boundaries,” a multi-day long certification earned...
Sometimes grace breaks through when you break a pattern or, in workplace parlance, when you “pivot.” In 2015, the nonprofit I worked for “pivoted” from funding...
My father was seriously ill several times in his last years of life. He could have received the sacrament of the anointing of the sick when facing surgery for...
