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By Lori Ubowski It’s impossible to turn on the television or stroll through your favorite store without running into the promise of “satisfaction guaranteed or your money back” [...]

By Katie Taylor   My husband and I are not gift-givers; bluntly, it is not our love language, but he has surprised me with a handful of jewelry gifts over the years that have brought much [...]

By: Caralyn     I don’t know about you, but I often chuckle when I think about how naive I was at the beginning of “all this.” Back at the beginning of March, I believed that the world [...]

By Sarah Christmyer     Out by the driveway is an army of “spider flowers:” tall, pink, spiky flowers that never give up until frost. As the long seed pods mature, the kids love to take [...]

By Emily Cavins   Who would have thought that I would have been handed a three-month (and counting) sabbatical? Most often, when someone is offered the luxury of time off, a lot of planning [...]

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 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 Alyssa Bormes   Oh – I have nothing to say – there are just disjointed thoughts spilling forth. It is my father’s birthday today – and I remember his hugs – and they were so strong and [...]

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 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 [...]