Rediscovering Child Mind
Author’s Note: In honor of “back to school” week, I’m reprising a post I first published in 2015. I wish everyone involved …
Crippled, Bound, and Set Free
Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath. And a woman was there who for eighteen years had been crippled by …
The Passing of Thich Nhat Hanh
Dear friends, In case you haven’t yet heard, it is with deep sadness but also tremendous gratitude for his beautiful life that …
The Birth and Death Pangs of Beloved Community
On the night of April 3, 1968, when Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his final public speech in a crowded church in …
Jim Forest We Will Miss You
The worldwide Merton community today is mourning the loss of Jim Forest, a dear friend, peacemaker, prophetic witness, loving husband, father, and …
Hope and Dark Night Mysticism in the Theology of Constance FitzGerald
It is only in the process of bringing the impasse to prayer, to the perspective of the God who loves us, that …
From Profound Vulnerability into Vocation: Journeying with Ignatius the Soldier
“…being awake one night, he saw clearly a likeness of Our Lady with the Holy Child Jesus, at the sight of which, …
God and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Undergraduate Theology Classroom
“The person and community with a feel for God is not aiming to penetrate into the sacred. Rather, she is striving to …
Love in the Trenches
One of my earliest childhood memories takes place during Mass. I’m lying half asleep on the kneeler, next to my father’s perfectly …
“Why Do You Seek the Living Among the Dead?” Praying the Resurrection with U2
“Love endures beyond any earthly power to extinguish it.” “Mothers of the Disappeared” is the final track on Irish rock band U2’s …
