An Unfinished Death August 1, 2022 By Sari Fordham Leave a Comment After a difficult relationship, Jill has one more struggle with her Dutch father-in-law Izaak, accepting his decision to die by euthanasia while still relatively healthy at 85.
Staging Creation May 11, 2022 By Janet R. Kirchheimer & Jaclyn Piudik 1 Comment Reading this poem, let the syllables, as the act of Creation, roll over you. Abstract and concrete, emotional and rational, evocative and literal, consider with the poets all that was created those "first days."
The Call to Stepmother April 25, 2022 By Susan Sink 2 Comments Being a stepmother is a paradigm of the Christian life: you enter a broken situation and try to live with grace.
Lent as a Place of Abundance March 2, 2022 By Marissa Papula Leave a Comment What if, this Lent, we pray, move, and imagine from a place of abundance, rather than the scarcity the pandemic has left us with?
Called to the Radical Welcome of God January 10, 2022 By Liz Miller 2 Comments My defiant search for a church finally led me to places that expect Pride Sunday every Sunday.
Fear in Advent December 2, 2021 By Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew Leave a Comment In the midst of so many fears, maybe this Advent we need not push those fears away but, in looking at them, we can let them break us open so love can be born in us in a new way.
How to Have an Enemy November 8, 2021 By Susan Sink Leave a Comment "Choosing Black liberation is to choose a different life, one that collects, little by little, habits, economics, community, and politics that are for the mutual thriving of our world."
A Church Made of Words October 18, 2021 By Sophia Stid 1 Comment Sophia Stid, a poet, explores the difficult, ongoing task of finding the words for faith, in a world where words are multivalent and sometimes misused.
A God Who Cleaves: Coming Out, Parents, and Queerness October 11, 2021 By Kai (Sarah) Ngu 2 Comments "After college, I began to discover new tools for interpreting the Bible that allowed me, for the first time, to imagine myself as a whole person within my faith."
Salute to the Collegeville Institute (1967-2017) September 15, 2021 By Kilian McDonnell, OSB 2 Comments Kilian McDonnell, OSB, wrote this poem celebrating 50 years of theological pursuits and liveliness of the Collegeville Institute. This week we celebrate with him as he turns 100 years old.