The Unearned Gift
In addition to physical recovery, Chelsea Hillyer wrestles with the complex feelings of being a donor tissue recipient, when they always saw themselves as more likely to be a donor. In the end, grace wins out.
Eucharist
Claiming a Fast in Pandemic Time: How We Carry What We Miss
Can this ongoing pandemic be recast as a sort of fast? As we sacrifice and remain apart in continuing, real ways, impatient for a return to "normal," what can we learn from this time?
The Brightened Table
That Eucharistic table stands in the center of our worship space as an affirmation of the table of solidarity of those who eat at it with all who hunger.
Jesus Fed Everyone
When visitors come to our homes, we feed them. We do not limit our sharing to those who are somehow worthy to eat our food.
Lights: Diffused, Refracted, and Reflected
In response to yesterday's essay, Mary Bednarowski reflects on a "lifetime of communions and community, of questioning and critique and re-commitment."
A Gathering of Different Lights
We need more than interfaith breakfasts. We need to make room in our religious practices for others to be fully present and welcomed.
All Saints’ Day is for Sinners, Too
In a new series on identity and belonging, Lyndsey Medford writes about taking her place among sinner-saints in a church she sometimes finds intolerable.
Book Notes, September 2018
Learn about new books by authors affiliated with the Collegeville Institute, including a mystery novel featuring a crime-solving nun, a book about sacred practices, and a spiritual memoir.
Quiet Eucharist
A new poem by Stella Nesanovich, which extolls the ordinary miracle of the Eucharist.
Violence and the Eucharist
How should pastors respond to violence in this age of mass-shootings? Congregational rituals and practices like the eucharist, writes Anthony Siegrist, are a source of pastoral wisdom.
