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By Lynda MacFarland   Most of us don’t have any true enemies who we feel great animosity towards and who feel the same toward us. Most of us don’t have to worry about someone [...]

By Sarah Damm Every year, I attend a weekend-long silent retreat. It is an opportunity for me to respond to Jesus’ invitation to “come away by [yourself] to a lonely place, and rest a while” [...]

by Sarah Christmyer     Our nephew’s wife went into labor in the early days of the pandemic, when toilet paper shortages were still funny and the virus seemed to be a passing thing. [...]

By Teresa Tomeo Many of you might not be old enough to remember the popular song, “What the World Needs Now is Love,” originally sung by Jackie De Shannon. The tune, [...]

By Sherry Antonetti     Love your enemies.   Really.   Love those who hate you.   That’s much less poetic when we really think about it.  This past week, I blocked several people [...]

By Dianne Davis “For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in the mirror; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has [...]

By Elizabeth Tomlin   One of the things that have stuck out to me, in a good way, about Covid-19 is that people are really stretching out to help each other. A friend told me recently that [...]

By Hilary Scheppers   “Christ calls his sheep by name and they follow him.” This antiphon makes me think of all the times in my life in which I have been called by name. Either by someone [...]

By Dianne Davis I’m writing this just a couple of weeks into the Coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. I live in New York, where we have the highest outbreak in the Nation. We were one of the first [...]

By Sherry Kennedy Brownrigg   My mother and I look just alike. When I walk down the street in her small western Nebraska hometown, people have stopped me and said, “You must be Sarah Jane [...]