Noah’s Wife Remembers
Jane Mary Curran offers a vision of Noah's wife remembering the flood, the losses and the grief one carries after such a season of losses.
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Eden in the Grey
"I came upon a grove...A green glen hidden in a city of grey...A small piece of Eden tucked away."
Spider Pets and the Revelation of God
As Aaron Raverty, OSB, flung live insects at spider webs as a child, was he also acting in parallel with God, who provides for us just out of our sight?
Waning and Waxing
Christine Valters Paintner's poem prepares us to enter Advent with contemplation on the waxing and waning of the moon, the dark night and the promise of stars.
Evolving Complexity
As we move from the Climate Conference in Glasgow with renewed purpose, and maybe also fear and sadness, Wendy Jean Maclean reminds us of our long love affair with Creation.
Goodbye Vanessa, Hello Awe
Instead of arriving at humility via the well-trodden paths of failure or shame, awe offers us humility through the force of wonder.
The Smallest Possible Thing
What happens when we are able to look closely at the small thing in front of us, stepping out of our more dramatic aspirations? There are miracles to be found when we shift our perspective.
Taking Off the Crown of Creation
What happens when we adjust our theology to see humans as part of creation rather than at the top of it?
To Kneel in the Soil: Responding to a Climate Generation in Crisis
How do we answer children's fears about the ongoing climate crisis? Maybe the best we can do is engaging them with living soil.
Living Faith in Stereo
"The Lenten practice of looking with complexity continues to sustain our beautiful, terrible lives, to ground our hope in the pockets of possibilities for the world as it could be, and to make possible the art of living faith in stereo."
