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A Day That Will Live In Brexit-famy
As an American studying in Scotland, the scene plays out like some of the worst nightmares I’ve had about November: fear-mongering, xenophobia, a “return” to a time when things were “right” ... Read More
The Benefits of Meditation for Breaking Attachment to Unmindful Routines
When the World Trade Centers were attacked on September 11, 2001, I was standing in line at the Tucson, AZ airport, waiting to check in so that I could return home. Standing in line, oblivious to th... Read More
Stop Sympathizing and Start Supporting: A Close Look at What Moves us to Advocacy, Part 2
If you read Part 1 of this article, you have become acquainted with the members of the Rural Women’s Movement, many of them unmarried mothers who participate in my research project on the strugg... Read More
Wedding Cakes and Religious Pluralism
One of the first religious experiences I had as a teenager seeking a spiritual teenager was attending a Reform Jewish temple in St. Joseph, Missouri. The temple’s members were mainly elderly people,... Read More
Stop Sympathizing and Start Supporting: A Close Look at What Moves Us to Advocate, Part 1
We drive down a dusty, overgrown mountain road, and I wonder how the low clearance between my four-cylinder rental’s undercarriage and the uneven mounds of earth have not scraped the oil pan from my... Read More
5 Things I Never Knew About People With Developmental Disabilities Until I Starting Living With Them
All views expressed in this post are my own and are written separately from community life in L’Arche International. In C.S. Lewis’s classic novel The Horse and His Boy, Lewis pens this classic qu... Read More
The Consistent Life Ethic in U.S. Catholic Discourse: Planned Parenthood, Abortion, and #BlackLivesMatter
In high school, I was the President of the Pro-Life Club for a year. It seemed like a completely natural fit for me—being in a leadership role on such a divisive political and moral issue appealed t... Read More
Who Sets the Table? White-Christian Dominance of Interfaith Gatherings
My home church recently hosted a summer-long series of guest speakers under the theme “Expanding Our Faith.” Eager to gain insights from other religious traditions, we invited a rabbi, an imam, a ... Read More